Opinion

Horgan government increased B.C.’s top personal income tax rate from 14.7 per cent to 20.5 per cent

It’s time to rally around new housing solutions to ease Victoria’s crisis

Re: East Sooke radio tower plan gets thumbs down from land use committee ( News , Jan. 26)

‘Speed cushions’ and other attempts to physically slow traffic do not work, but may harm safely driven vehicles.

We are mothers and grandmothers who have lived in the Western Communities most of our lives. Our kids grew up here, ‘free range,’ connected to nature. We’ve been lucky.

My ancestors were Canada’s First People, they lost their land, their culture, their language, their children – leaving them in ruin.

I think the word harmony works better than the word peace. One problem is that cult leaders who promise world peace frequently lead their followers to death or are just lying to you.

Good Ovening takes over space in downtown Victoria

Twice recently, Cadboro Bay residents rejected attempts to get heavy densification into the bay through changing the local area plan. Now Saanich officials have been claiming that local area plans do not fit the official community plan, and can thus be overridden/bypassed.

It’s too easy to label North Saanich voters as “anti-housing” or “anti-development”. Yes, of course there are some residents in every municipality who are opposed to changes in their neighbourhood. The term NIMBY (not in my backyard) was coined to describe folks who move into a neighbourhood and then want to “pull up the drawbridge” and prevent others from moving in.