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May 5: Does logging play a聽part in closure?

Re: 鈥淛uan de Fuca trail closure 鈥榟orrible鈥 for businesses,鈥 May 2. I find it more horrible that sa国际传媒 Timber Sales is logging adjacent to the Juan de Fuca trail. Perhaps the trail is being kept closed by sa国际传媒

May 5: Bus pass costs same as tank of gas

Re: 鈥淧ublic transit should be free, Victoria council says,鈥 April 26.

May 5: Other key services are funded by taxes

Re: 鈥淧ublic transit should be free, Victoria council says,鈥 April 26.

May 5: Convenient service better than free

Re: 鈥淗organ passes on free transit,鈥 April 27. It is amazing that no matter how much things change, the more they stay the same. Free transit is not a new concept. In the early 1970s, I was a student with a social-democratic bent.

May 5: Let鈥檚 clean up for our grandchildren

Re: 鈥淏ag ban is more about a gesture,鈥 letter, April 28. Obviously, the club mentioned in the letter was banning plastic bags partly for the wrong reasons.

May 5: Public 鈥榮ervants鈥 become masters

Re: 鈥淢ayor sounds alarm on CRD鈥檚 salary expenses,鈥 April 30.

May 5: Stop thinking in聽the聽short term

Re: 鈥淣ew thinking needed to fight climate battle,鈥 comment, April聽28. Greta Thunberg鈥檚 message is completely lost on Canadians. She is saying: Do not steal our future from us, but act now to fend off the climate catastrophe, even if it hurts.

May 5: Discrimination based on hormones

The runner Caster Semenya has been barred from her field because of her naturally occurring testosterone level. Imagine the following: 鈥淪ir, you are ineligible to practise social work.

May 5: Kenney ignores costs of oil industry

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney stated how many billions of dollars Alberta has contributed to sa国际传媒. I鈥檇 like him to say how many billions in subsidies Canadian taxpayers have given to mostly foreign oil companies.

May 5: Protesters drowned out free speech

Re: 鈥淕ender-issues talk in Oak Bay cut short as protests break out amid packed crowd,鈥 May 3. I saw hate on Thursday night 鈥 and it wasn鈥檛 coming from Jenn Smith. I still don鈥檛 know if I share Smith鈥檚 perspective because I wasn鈥檛 allowed to hear it.