New generation will do better with our forests Re: “Scrap the old forest industry, build a new one,” commentary, Jan. 30.
I have absolutely had it with retired foresters writing long-winded opinion pieces about how we need to shut the forest industry down.
I work in the forest industry because I truly believe that well-managed forests and the products they produce are a key part of addressing climate change, building our province and providing benefits and employment to people in rural B.C. As one writer stated, we need to look at what worked in the past and two things come to mind, government-built not-for-profit housing and co-ops.
That arena is disproportionately made up of homeowners and retirees rather than renting and working Victorians, but even there both missing-middle hearings resulted in an even split between supporters and opponents.Missing middle is not an affordable housing plan, but there’s no reason mid-sized housing for middle-income households can’t exist alongside low-income high-density housing.
The upward price pressure on real estate in Greater Victoria would be relieved once people realize they could live up-Island and still easily access work and recreation in the Capital Regional District. They are stigmatized because they are robbing businesses and breaking into our cars to support their habit. They are stigmatized because the rest of us have to watch them stooped over like decaying zombies while we drive to work so we can pay taxes that pay for their cellphones and food and drugs.
Therefore, the welcome mat is out for every drug-addled individual to migrate to B.C. where our health-care system is already broken, and will not be able to cope with the influx of even more troubled individuals.Thanks, Kenny, for your help in the rain Our brother, Kenny, was in a catastrophic motorcycle accident on Malahat Drive, Victoria in June and suffered multiple fractures, loss of a leg and a traumatic brain injury.
At this point a man came up to ask if everything was OK. When he heard that we couldn’t find our car, he took my fob and personally checked each row of cars.
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