Letters

To Sylvie Rochette and Amelia Warren of North Saanich's Epicure Selections, and to Mandy Farmer, chief executive of Victoria-based Accent Inns, for being named among Profit and Chatelaine magazines' top 100 women entrepreneurs in Canada.

Re: "Overloaded buses pass by 1,300 in one week," Oct. 4. What an absurd and revealing situation B.C. Transit has got itself into, thanks to the intransigent position of municipalities in Greater Victoria.

Re: "Victoria snubbed as host of 2014 Juno music awards," Oct. 4. Victoria will be passed over by another major event with the Juno Awards going to Winnipeg.

Re: "Northwest art show explores erotic theme," Oct. 4. The photo of a First Nations carving by Kwakwaka'wakw artist Calvin Hunt depicts a female with prominent breasts.

Is it necessary to serve a small shipyard and channel barge traffic to the detriment of the high-volume traffic to the Johnson Street corridor with a "lift" bridge? The waterline profile of a lift bridge is, even now, a built-in fault of a major rout

Put down your forks for a moment, everyone. Jenny: stop fidgeting. We need to reflect on what it is to give thanks. Consider the origin of these words: We think, have thoughts. To thank is to think grateful thoughts.

The warning that people who forget history are destined to repeat it dates back to the 18th century. But don't tell B.C.'s health minister, Margaret MacDiarmid. Her government can't remember what's been happening over the last decade or so.

Diary of a week, or how I wish I'd precycled my life. Sunday. One of my favourite places to visit on Hornby Island, apart from the bakery, Helliwell Park and Whaling Station, is the Hornby Island Recycling Depot.

Re: "Woman stunned to get ticket for leaving car windows open," Sept. 27. It would seem that there must be no crime worth pursuing in Nanaimo these days.

Re: "Non-Christian prison chaplains to get boot," Oct. 5. We used to say religious freedom was bedrock to our Canadian way, but no longer.