Opinion

Adam Olsen is the BC Green Party MLA for Saanich North and the Islands

This isn’t the time for a radical Indigenous rights agenda

Re: Make public art accessible to all

Re: CRD tickets cyclists who ignore stop signs at Lochside trail, Saanich Road intersection .

The Rickter Scale is a weekly column

I would like to thank the wonderful couple who helped me when I returned to my car, two grandsons in tow, to find a dead battery.

Recently I have had at least four near misses on the roads around Sidney that tell me people are just not focused on their driving, too much in a hurry or selfish to a degree that it is inevitable there is going to be a tragedy.

As we relax into the warmer days of summer it is time to sit on the porch, drink that tayberry lemonade and drift along with the buzzing of insects as they move about the yard from flower to flower. Well that is the fantasy isn’t it? If you are a gardener like me, as soon as the temperature hit 10 degrees this spring I was already feeling behind! Then I put my back out and well that just doesn’t go well with preparing the beds, weeding and planting.

As a scientist, it seems that David Suzuki has a very narrow view of global warming. CO2 may well be a contributor, but it is minor and the overriding factor is a consequence of our self-indulgence.

Re: the article on the survey on secondary suites that included the quote: “Oak Bay has never been affordable and should be kept that way.” That quote in the June 14 Oak Bay News is both erroneous and pompous.