Praise for Del Manak’s help during school march I participated in the march from George Jay school to honour the brave Chinese children who refused to be segregated 100 years ago.
One of the many highlights was the sight of Victoria Police Chief Del Manak, running from one intersection to the next to direct traffic. Thank you, Chief, you’re the best!Curious virus accounting makes it meaningless I sit here happily coughing, knowing that I have just had my first negative COVID‑19 test in two weeks. In two days, I fully expect my second negative test, so I can consider myself cured. I will continue to wear a mask in public places, as a matter of course.
I feel for the plight of the writer regarding their woes to access primary care. I know the story intimately. Not to mention picking up a shift in a walk-in or urgent care clinic, or the local ER. This is starting to sound like eight days a week! But I can’t help but feel these are all symptoms of a much greater and widespread problem that is greater than the ability of any particular government to address. Many of these issues plague provincial governments across Canada and have plagued public systems in Britain and Europe as well as the very expensive private system in the United States.
I await the conference of sociologists, political scientists and historians gathering to discuss their theory of everything.Column missed key questions about council Re: “Don’t blame Victoria for other governments’ failures,” column, Sept. 4. We all pay a significant and ongoing cost for our collective failure to persuade the B.C. government that the status quo, here and in Greater Vancouver, has failed residents and taxpayers, the people of B.C. and indeed the country.Fighter pilot call signs all about camaraderie At first, my pilot call sign was “Badger.” A tenacious creature, that. And I appreciated the simile. Then they made it “Stone.
It all sounds like a dreamer having a dream, but anything would be better than the nightmare we are living with today. In the suburbs the administrations don’t appear to have realized they are facing the same issue. Many cities built clusters of high-rise “affordable housing” in the past century. Almost all of these are now decrepit and in line for demolishing or have already been torn down.
The CRD has more than enough land to make that possible. If a developer can’t live with that, advise them to take their business elsewhere; others will soon apply. If Mari’s generosity does not extend that far, perhaps the city could do what it should have done in 2016: Buy the lot and perform the same public service, thus adding to its meagre stock of parkland.Barbara AbercrombieWant the greenest building? Don’t build it Victoria Mayor Lisa Help has said “buildings account for nearly half of all greenhouse gas pollution generated in the city.”