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Recycling program needs an overhaul

Re: 鈥淔or the region, recycling can be a pain in the glass,鈥 Jan. 3. It鈥檚 obvious from the article on glass-container disposal that the whole Capital Regional District recycling program needs an overhaul and the sa国际传媒

Island rail foundation is at it again

Re: 鈥淚sland rail foundation: E&N line is not dead yet,鈥 Jan. 2. Here we go again. The Island Corridor Foundation is planning to do yet another condition assessment of the E&N bridges and track.

Put unused tickets to聽good use

Re: 鈥淭ickets nearly sold out after prices reined in,鈥 Dec. 26. I have noticed that there are lots of empty seats at the games that sa国际传媒 or the United States are not involved in.

Region suffers from benign neglect

Re: 鈥淧rovince could save the region from itself,鈥 editorial, Dec. 28.

Gas prices fall, but聽not聽in Victoria

Last week, CBC television news reported that gas prices across sa国际传媒 had dropped to their lowest of the year. Gas in Toronto was down to 92.9 cents per litre.

Populists play on聽voters鈥 emotions

Re: 鈥淲hy does populism worry Trudeau?鈥 letter, Jan. 2. Why does 鈥減opulism鈥 worry Trudeau? We can鈥檛 cover Political Science 100 in a letter to the editor, but here are few thoughts. Historically, Hitler and Mussolini were populists.

Native bees adapted to聽imported plants

Re: 鈥淰ictoria plan ranges from coffee cups to childcare,鈥 Dec. 20. I am writing as a longtime Victoria-area gardener about the plan to replant parks and boulevards with native plants.

Don鈥檛 be held hostage by tree regulations

While trees provide benefits such as shade and CO2 absorption, they also create issues. If you want to put in a vegetable garden, most vegetables don鈥檛 flourish in shade. The same goes for solar panels or solar heating.

A taste of Lyft reaches聽Victoria

It is nice to see a Lyft ad on the ice at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre. It is good to see that our city has approved the presence of Lyft somewhere within its borders. Don Allan Victoria

We don鈥檛 need second-rate taxis

It seems to me that so-called ride-sharing 鈥 the likes of Uber and Lyft 鈥 are operating under false colours.