Letters

On International Women’s Day, in an issue focused on women, next to an editorial titled “Giving women the credit they are due”, the poll indicated that 46.4 per cent of your respondents think that vaccinations should be mandatory to enrol children in school and 53.6 per cent do not. That result in itself is disturbing, but even more so on pages filled with recognitions of worthy women.

Instead of sympathy, some have worked to distance themselves from these attacks or to assign blame.

Per the American Audubon Society, the number one cause of birds being killed is from flying into plate glass windows on single family dwellings. Domestic cats are at the bottom of their list.

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I would like to talk about Whiffin Spit Park and the trail leading out to the end of the spit.

A reader says a refurbished E&N railroad would ease traffic on Malahat

Firstly I want to share that I enjoy reading the Peninsula News Review . As a newcomer to the Peninsula I find it very helpful in finding out what’s happened/happening locally.

Missing from rants against policing costs in Saanich and other municipalities are the victims, whose lives will be ruined if not eliminated. Poor people are especially harmed as they have the least financial resiliency to recover from loss of property and from loss of income due to injury from assault.

I am growing increasingly annoyed by the antics of Victoria’s deranged city council.

Jason Fisher, a biologist and member of the Urban Wildlife Stewardship Society (UWSS), admits there isn’t data to compare urban deer populations to deer populations in the wild. He said we can’t prove scientifically that the deer population has increased and claims that there isn’t any data available about deer population in Oak Bay because “none of us have the time frame or the proper temporal scale to make that call.