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Letters July 30: Not such a silent spring after all; we must adapt to a fossil-fuelled reality for now
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Letters July 24: Pros and cons of urgent care clinics; virus puts health dollars at risk
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As Hancock noted, Mayor Lisa Helps and the other members of council, particularly the most outspokenly progressive, received a strong public mandate at the last election to pursue their reform agenda. The Times Colonist comment pages have mainly served as a forum for the city’s conservative and mostly privileged residents to counter even the most modest efforts to improve the urban environment and the living conditions of the homeless, the working poor and historically marginalized minority communities. Council’s efforts have necessarily been modest, given the lack of resources and powers available to effect meaningful change at the municipal level.
Letters March 23: Thanks to Jack Lohman; ongoing bike-lane disasters
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What’s also important are facts. Steve Woolrich’s account of the Regatta Point Park removal of a man’s property and his assertion that “the man walked away with nothing,” isn’t entirely true. Nor is the picture displayed with his article an accurate account of what the city’s parks staff, bylaw and police found when they attended the site. There was garbage, household items and other unsalvageable items spread throughout the park. It took a team of staff 40 minutes to clean up the very small park. The owner wasn’t present until closer to the end, and when he returned, he wasn’t surprised that a clean-up was underway.