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Re: 鈥淪peed limits to drop on some highways,鈥� Nov. 7. The increase in speed limits by the former minister of transportation was irresponsible and stupid.

Re: 鈥淪eniors charged extra for strong flu shot,鈥� letter, Nov. 2. I had not been aware of the extra-strength flu shot.

Re: 鈥淐ore-area mayors focus on housing, diversity in inaugural addresses,鈥� Nov. 6. According to the article, Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said: 鈥淲e really need to restore civility and decorum to public dialogue.鈥� In my opinion, she misses the point.

I find it very interesting that within minutes of polls closing in the U.S. midterm elections, early results, including those from early voting, were available. In fact, within half an hour, early trends, i.e.

This Remembrance Day, I will think about all the soldiers, sailors and airmen/women who served in sa国际传媒鈥檚 foreign wars from the Boer War, the First World War, the Second World War and the Korean War to the Balkans and Afghanistan.

I will be wearing a white poppy at the Spanish Civil War memorial on Menzies Street at 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 11, because it commemorates the first war against fascism and is a war we seem to have forgotten.

Restrictions on bus lanes are puzzling Re: 鈥淢otorists in bus lanes face $109聽fine,鈥� Nov. 1.

Re: 鈥淭he sa国际传媒 debate over proportional representation,鈥� Nov. 4. The Islander provided plenty of news space to the proportional representation debate. But the coverage was long on opinion and short on facts.

Re: 鈥淲hat was it like for you when there was a war?鈥� comment, Nov. 4.

Perhaps the best argument for proportional representation in sa国际传媒 is the state of democracy in the U.S. Jamie Alley Victoria