Opinion

On walks along Cadboro Beach I have been assaulted by dogs on numerous occasions. These usually take the form of dogs jumping and placing their paws on my person, walking besides me whilst barking threateningly or both. I will recount the last two events which occurred over the past 10 days.

I’ve worked from home, washed my hands, masked up and got my first jab. I’ve followed each and every health order in this ongoing provincial pandemic emergency.

Alistair MacGregor is MP for Cowichan-Malahat-Langford

Re: Province should stop funding private schools ( Letters , April 22)

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.