It's been a strange year for teachers and students alike in B.C., who have had to navigate learning in new ways, with new protocols in place, to adhere to COVID-19 safety guidelines.
A commentary by the past chair of Grumpy Taxpayer$ of Greater Victoria, a citizen’s advocacy group for municipal taxpayers. The words of Pythagoras, an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and . . .
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“It has definitely been very quiet for us all weekend,” said B.C. Ferries’ Tessa Humphries. Even without the extra sailings that would normally be added to the major routes for the holiday, there was plenty of empty space on board. And no, Humphries hadn’t heard of any travellers being turned away for breaking essential-travel rules. B.C. authorities were worried about how we would behave this long weekend. They were afraid of the kind of rule-bending that led to COVID spiking after Christmas and Easter. “Whenever there’s been a long weekend, we’ve seen an increase in case counts,” Premier John Horgan said last week. That’s why the premier, Adrian Dix and Dr. Bonnie held off announcing the details of the province’s restart plan until today. They feared we would jump the gun.
Remember this unfair, insane policy, when voting at the next federal election. Patricia Coulter Trudeau, the feds and the cruise-ship debacle From all that I can remember from the reporting, the cruise-ship debacle is solely on the shoulders of Trudeau and the feds. They flatly refused all reasonable solutions proposed by the industry, even to the point of disallowing cruise ships anchoring offshore in Canadian waters for a few hours to accommodate the Jones Act. Considering this hard-nosed and unfriendly attitude, it is no surprise that the Americans would respond as they have. They never really needed us other than as a technical stop so we have only ourselves to blame if they don’t come back.