Opinion

Premier John Horgan appealed to my demographic when he laid blame on 20-39 year olds for the recent spike in COVID and implored us to “not blow it for the rest of us.”

Reader says education funding unfair to low-income neighbourhoods

Alberta has joined Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick signing an agreement to build small modular reactors.

I am very pleased to see that the forest defenders at Fairy Creek have decided to stay despite having received a dismissal letter.

We all have different ideas of what makes a city livable - but let’s sort out what really makes a difference. Is it density that makes a city unsafe, unpleasant, noisy, or is it more complex? Statistics would say so. Paris has around four times the density of Vancouver (according to a study by the Fraser Institute), but few towers. In the Netherlands, where cycling is the norm, room is found for trees, parks, and predominantly “missing middle” housing.

Recent letters on heritage have not dealt with its advantages. Importantly, it helps against climate change, first by retention of some trees and landscaping, all usually lost during development. Heritage work allows some changes.

I am writing on behalf of the Victoria Children’s Choir, which for the past 20 years has been an advocate for music education in Victoria and beyond. We have received the news that the Greater Victoria School District (SD61) is considering major cuts to the elementary and middle school music programs and we are deeply concerned about the effects such cuts will have on the spiritual, emotional and physical health of children.

Adam Olsen is MLA for Saanich North and the Islands

When I read the words “recreational hunting of wolves” I felt a wave of revulsion sweep over me. “Recreational” when referring to killing for the sole sake of killing. It made me sick to my stomach.

First, the District of North Saanich deserves a strong round of applause for removing the vessels from the waters off Lillian Hoffar Park. But that’s only a minute part of a much larger problem in Tsehum Harbour (and elsewhere up and down our coast).