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Assessment values lack consistency

Re: 鈥淗omeowners appealing 鈥榮urreal鈥 assessments,鈥 Jan. 8. One wonders what the point is of this annual costly exercise. The sa国际传媒 Assessment Authority publishes for each property information to back up its assessment of land value and building value.

Councillor鈥檚 views on Malahat unrealistic

I, like many others, live north of Leigh Road and travel the Trans-sa国际传媒 Highway home.

Too much coverage of聽pipeline protests

Re: 鈥淰ictoria protesters join nationwide outcry over pipeline arrests,鈥 Jan. 9. I don鈥檛 know about the public in general, but I am getting fed up with all the pipeline protesters and the wide coverage by the media.

We need real-world solutions to issues

Re: 鈥淏y what right? The confrontation at Wedzin Kwah,鈥 comment, Jan. 9.

Scotland鈥檚 poet known聽as Rabbie

The annual letter for slow learners. In Scotland, the diminutive form of Robert is Rabbie. I would not think it cultural appropriation to call him that, rather than the deplorable Robbie. G.R. Greig Victoria

Interchange work pollutes Colquitz River

Re: 鈥淔looding swamps equipment at McKenzie interchange work site,鈥 Jan. 5.

Hockey players shared spirit of Christmas

On Christmas Eve at St. Andrew鈥檚 Presbyterian Church, on Douglas Street, we had the pleasure of the U.S. hockey team and family members attending the evening service. The team called ahead to see if we would have room.

Green deal should include vegetarianism

Re: 鈥淎 New Year and a (Green) New Deal?鈥 column, Dec. 30. It is encouraging that new, young elected leaders, along with the Sunrise movement in the U.S.

Government has neglected museums

Re: 鈥淐hinese museum mulled for Victoria,鈥 Dec. 28. The sa国际传媒 government claims it will create a museum that is devoted to Chinese-Canadian history in Vancouver鈥檚 Chinatown.

Push China to halt export of fentanyl

Re: 鈥淔our a day dying in sa国际传媒 as illicit-drug overdoses plateau,鈥 Dec. 28. The reported detection of fentanyl in 85 per cent of illicit-drug overdoses in 2018 is troubling.