Letters

My son played junior and senior basketball at Parkland Secondary in the ’90s. He now coaches a high school team and they recently played the Parkland junior team at his old stomping ground. It was fun for me to return to the gym where I spent so many hours watching him play.

Fiddling while Rome burns. The meaning: To occupy oneself with unimportant matters and neglect priorities during a crisis.

I just returned from a walk around the base of Mount Douglas from my Gordon Head home. During that walk, I passed several dogs on leashes with owners who had full control of their pets – often pulling aside as I passed and exchanging pleasant greetings.

All the ingredients already exist: the most horrific, devastating, and bitter; and the most miraculous, magical, and sweet. Everything and all possibilities are just waiting for us to pick and harvest and carry home to our heart pantry. It all depends on the ingredients we choose to stock in our soul kitchens and cook with.

The Royal British Columbia Museum announced that soon the insidious shrine to colonialism known as “Becoming B.C.” will be dismantled to aid the cause of “decolonization.”

Does the B.C. vaccine passport make you feel more secure when you go to a restaurant, pub or event? Well, if your QR code is not scanned you might want to think about going somewhere else.

I would like to respond to the recent letter from William Perry on rail not being relevant for modern times. The writer brings up a lot of challenges faced by rail and talks about this not being the 19th century or even the 20th century.

The city is boasting that 41 so-called My Great Neigbourhood Projects ‘came to life’ in 2021. Some $125,000 was contributed by taxpayers this year, totaling an astounding $750,000 since 2016.

A young friend of mine recently told me of a competition he was entering. Young people from Victoria schools were asked to make a five-minute pitch video to tell how they would solve one societal problem: global warming, homelessness, the opioid crisis, saving old-growth forests.

I am only a temporary resident but, in line with Coun. Wainwright’s notice of motion, it would seem that serious monetary, not emotional, consideration must be given to the priority of the pier relative to other, more existential, needs.