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Canada Day fest should continue

It's wrong to suggest that the City of Victoria should cancel future Canada Day fireworks based on the unruly behaviour of a few. This would be unfair to the tens of thousands of people who behaved responsibly...

 
 
 

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The article "Dementia patients left via open gate" July 7, reported "The last woman was found at 7:30 p.m. in a pub in Oak Bay"
 
 
 

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The government's argument that $300,000-plus public sector salaries are needed to keep the best people in challenging times simply doesn't ring true.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Don't impose rules on dogs in stores

A writer suggested dogs did not used to be allowed in stores. Stores always have been private enterprise and free to make their own rules regarding our four-legged citizens, grocery stores excepted, of course.


 

Cowichan Valley needs mental-health resources

Re: "Addiction, mental illness require joint approach," June 30


 

Nothing sinister in missing e-mails

The editorial about the need for an inquiry into deleted provincial government e-mails related to the B.C. Rail sale was well-reasoned, but starting from incorrect assumptions can lead the best of reasoning to a faulty conclusion.


 

Private care fine, with public payment

One society, one health-care system, one set of doctors, one set of nurses, one set of high-tech medical equipment, plus triaging, equals Canadian universal health care.


 
A proposal to surface the planned E&N Rail trail with gravel is shortsighted because it will discourage cyclists, says a letter-writer.

Gravel E&N trail a huge mistake

I read with great concern that the first phase of the E&N Rail trail will be gravelled, not paved, to save about $950,000.


 

Sheets for the table have a long history

Your helpful suggestion of sheets as a cheap source of table clothes (July 4) made me recall the verse we used to write in each other's autograph books in grade school in the late 1930s. It goes:


 

Immunization effort saving children's lives

Barbara Lewis hits the mark with her article on the Happy Planet Index (July 5). The article quoted Nic Marks of the New Economic Foundation: "Following the siren's song of economic growth has delivered only marginal benefits to the world's poorest while undermining the basis of their livelihoods."


 

Catalyst sets a bad example

So Catalyst Paper refuses to pay its legal tax bill?


 

Prop-rep argument on shaky foundation

I disagree with Jim Hume's position in his provocative column "Look to Europe for lessons about electoral change" (July 5).


 

History's lessons on electoral reform

Jim Hume's warning that pursuers of electoral reform should be careful what they wish for (June 5) equally applies to its opponents. In evoking the images of Nazi concentration camps, he might also recall the evidence given by Adolf Hitler's deputy, Hermann Goering, at the 1946 Nuremberg trials, who held th


 

No justifications for Honduran coup

While Canada voted at the Organization of American States to condemn the military government in Honduras, Peter Kent, Canada's minister of state for foreign affairs, also indicated veiled support for the de facto government. "The coup was certainly an affront to the region, but there is a context in which t


 

Verdict in hockey trial was bad for the game

Judge Michael Hubbard doesn't want his judgment viewed as approval of violence, yet finds the perpetrator of violence innocent.


 

Hospital cleaning steadily gets worse

In 1984, I spent six days in Victoria General Hospital. During that stay in a private room, I met a cleaning staff member four times, three dusting the floor and once washing.


 

Dogs in stores are not welcome

The writer of the letter "Dogs in stores bad for allergies" made many good points.


 
Saanich Reserve Const. Jeremy Mannall-Fretwell pours out alcohol that was found in pop bottles and confiscated from Canada Day celebrants along Wharf Street on July 1. It would be in the public interest to cancel future Canada Day celebrations, a letter-writer says.

Pull the plug on Canada Day chaos

Let's look at what the extravagant Canada Day event really costs our community.


 

Proportional rep criticism unfounded

In his article "Look to Europe for lessons about electoral change" (July 5), Jim Hume claims that proportional representation is responsible for the election of "a whole bunch of right-wing fanatics" in the European parliament.


 

Catalyst should pay

I too am tired of paying more tax than I think is reasonable -- municipal property taxes, provincial taxes, fees and charges and GST, income tax and surcharges and all the others that are hidden by our politicians, like the dividend taken by the province from B.C. Hydro every year -- many millions that is r


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dave Obee

Hansen's chance for budget straight talk

We are still almost two months away from seeing a revised budget for this fiscal year, one that will update the optimistic one unveiled by Finance Minister Colin Hansen in February. But today, with the release of the annual public accounts, we will get a sense of what might be in store.

 
 
 
 
 
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