Opinion

‘Google and Facebook… control the onramp to the internet highway in Canada’

Reader says science is a bandage to society’s ills

Murray Rankin is MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head

The currently being designed suite questionnaire is an opportunity for community input on suite regulation in Oak Bay. Below are seven questions that cover major parts of suite regulation and implementation.

I was so heartened to read that Saanich councillors Ned Taylor and Karen Harper are proposing to have Saanich council take action on the overdose crisis.

We are now at the halfway point in our council’s mandate. Accordingly, they regularly tout their accomplishments. The previous council was severely criticized for demolitions and overbuilding, inattention to the rapidly deteriorating infrastructure and lack of public engagement.

The federal government has made some great strides for climate action with Bill C-12, particularly in recognizing that it takes both the reduction of emissions and the protection of forest sinks to solve climate impacts. These are the two sides of the carbon equation that both need to be tackled.

‘This pandemic recovery effort is about people’

Jeff Bray

I applaud Jeff Stanhope’s letter to the Review regarding Alice Finall’s commentary on the direction the North Saanich OCP is taking. His letter was bang on. North Saanich has been valued as a rural district. It is the green space, or as Alice Finall says, the lungs of the region.