Opinion

I have been a member of Coast Capital Credit Union from almost its ‘original’ inception. I have experienced its growth from a community-based and member-focused organization to a corporate entity seemingly more concerned about its growth as a financial institution then its service to its members.

To be a Victoria city councillor, not only do you not have to live in Victoria, or own property or a business in Victoria, but you don’t even have to attend meetings in Victoria. You can just Zoom from afar and get paid by direct deposit, while in the meantime making decisions on how to spend local taxpayers’ money, impede the flow of vehicle traffic, and approve so-called public art that makes national news for all the wrong reasons.

Victoria MP reflects on fight to provide relief from stresses of COVID-19

As a low-income senior, I appreciate the monthly $300 COVID Crisis Grant from our B.C. government that has definitely helped me with the extra costs of surviving this pandemic.

COVID Recovery Benefit brings financial boost to those who need it

The Oak Bay News recently published a letter written by Jan Mears regarding secondary suites. In that letter, she listed things that she thinks are wrong with Oak Bay’s secondary accommodation bylaws and spoke in favour of secondary suites.

I am quite frankly gobsmacked. I am a recently retired nurse/nurse educator who has a full appreciation of the risks involved in the current pandemic. For Coun. Kahakauwila to be defending her recent trip to Cabo San Lucas for a wedding is beyond the pall on so many levels.

MP Randall Garrison says more must be done to protect Canadians from economic fallout from COVID-19

Murray Rankin

COVID has negatively affected citizens’ ability to deal with governments, businesses and institutions: communications are reduced to anonymously answered emails and impossible phone wait times. What a gift to those entities choosing to be unaccountable to those they serve.