Letters

Fossil fuels are ruining our environment and polluting the whole world.

It is my understanding council voted May 16 on whether to review the horse and carriage industry next September, with the idea of phasing them out. And ridiculously replacing them with e-carriages, a.k.a. automobiles.

Coun. Ben Isitt wants to kill the horse-drawn carriage trade in Victoria, which in all likelihood also will mean killing the horses currently pulling these carriages.

On May 15, my friend and I were having a birthday dinner at Corner Thai. When I asked for the bill, I was told that someone – and they wouldn’t divulge who it was – had payed for our dinner. How wonderful is that!

Having relocated to the Peninsula in this decade and having experienced public transit globally, I scratch my head at the local transit bashers and those who feel they are entitled to a free ride.

Bridge, highway projects awarded to companies, not unions

A recent letter suggests a healthy dialogue between cyclists and drivers and makes a number of recommendations.

There’s not a person in the world that can show me with any degree of certainty that any kind of tax will affect or change the climate.

The recent protest of Jenn Smith’s planned talk in Oak Bay was seriously flawed by hooliganism.

This letter is in response to Anita Bull, president of Saanich Residents for a Responsible EDPA Society. Some relevant facts were incorrectly presented in her letter Oversight needed to protect public interest .