Letters

The closure of Fernwood's Orange Hall means the loss of a piece of Victoria's history. Also, the loss of yet another performing venue for bluegrass and other musicians is lamentable. Piece by piece, Victoria loses its sense of community.

Re: "Why so many outside studies?" Sept. 12. The editorial suggested that the City of Victoria engages too many third-party reports and, by seeking outside expertise, we are wasting money and opportunities to enhance our own staff complement.

Re: "Tories continue the war on science, environment," Sept. 12. The writer draws attention to his position that "as a society we live or die by our consumption of coal.

Re: "Health Canada mum on overseas drug-manufacturing plant inspections: research," Sept. 11. Alan Cassels' views on the safety of "overseas" health products miss several important facts.

The downside to Canada's relatively liberal immigration policies is the risk that people will exploit those policies for illegal reasons.

With the election of Pauline Marois, five Canadian provinces and territories will soon have female premiers: British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, Nunavut and Newfoundland and Labrador. With the way things are going in B.C.

Re: "Religion and politics make frightful bedfellows," Sept. 12. Jack Knox's column illustrated the opposite of what the headline said, at least as far as Canada is concerned.

Taxpayers carrying the burden of an industry that needs supervision

Why is Canada contemplating building a pipeline that could destroy a large sector of our environment just to fuel China's economy? China has 19 per cent of the world's population, but consumes 53 per cent of the world's concrete, 48 per cent of the w

olice work would be a lot easier if officers and other personnel didn't have to spend so much time and resources on hoaxes and false alarms. P Last and bones were left on a Victoria beach.