Letters

This has probably been suggested many times before: Any of you out there born after 1958 will lose up to $12,000 by the Old Age Security changes. (I know it is graduated, but the concept is clear.

Re: "Poor regional planning cause of transit problems," Oct. 4 The writer asks where, other than in Victoria, one could find a public transit service provider requesting that institutions change their schedules to accommodate transit service woes.

We just returned from a wonderful three-day mini-vacation up Vancouver Island. We were going to go up through the Okanagan and back through Whistler.

The nomination of Richard Wagner of the Quebec Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada has pushed the number of women on the country's top court from four back to three. This may sound insignificant, but it isn't.

Sometimes you still hear people say: "Lock 'em up and throw away the key." But that refrain is getting fainter as people realize that prisoners should be treated with compassion and dignity.

Re: "Pipeline teaching tools from BCTF are 'unbalanced,'" Oct. 4. This is not a surprise to me as a trained high school social studies teacher and elementary teacher-librarian, now retired. The B.C.

Anyone who cares to look up the statistics for B.C.'s health-care system would be interested in the following facts about hip replacement wait times. For B.C. overall, the average is 50 per cent operated on in 11.2 weeks, 90 per cent in 31.

The more you look at the Environment Ministry's handling of the Morrison Mine proposal, the more unusual it gets. As discussed here Saturday, the government turned thumbs down last week on an open-pit project northwest of Smithers.

Re: "Opposition, clerics slam chaplain cut," Oct. 6. One wonders whether Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has any awareness of Canadian history. It is widely known that many generations of First Nations children were sent to residential schools.

Re: "Suspension over, Stahl set for season debut with Royals" and "Penalty derails Grizzlies," Sept. 27.