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Alberta ad ignores cost of climate change

In Thursday鈥檚 newspaper, I noticed a full-page ad by the government of Alberta, claiming that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion 鈥渄elay costs Canadians $40 million every day.鈥 It is difficult for me to judge the accuracy of this figure.

Tourism should stick with its old name

Re: 鈥淭ourism group drops new tag line because it was already used,鈥 Sept. 13. It looks to me as though Tourism Victoria is profoundly out of touch and needs an internal refresh, not external.

鈥楯umping the queue鈥 is聽meaningless term

Re: 鈥淧rivate clinics can continue to bill for MRI imaging until April, Dix says,鈥 Sept. 12.

Leaders make another great decision

Re: 鈥淗igh-friction coating aims to reduce rear-end crashes at highway intersections,鈥 Sept. 6.
Tent-city resident a聽dedicated student

Tent-city resident a聽dedicated student

I am an instructor with Camosun College鈥檚 School of Access, where adults can return to classes for upgrading, to enable further options for study and employment. A resident from tent city joined my summer-term English class.

Victorians delight in聽their cleverness

Re: 鈥淭ourism group drops new tag line because it was already used,鈥 Sept. 13. Congratulations on dropping that dizzy tag line proposed to promote Victoria.

Nowhere to turn for cash-strapped renters

Re: 鈥淭enants face 4.5 per cent rent increase 鈥 biggest hike since 2004,鈥 Sept. 9. We rent an apartment and pay, in relation to many other cities in sa国际传媒, a very high rent. We are pensioners and are watching inflation eating away at our buying power.

Comment: Renters, landlords both face high costs

Re: 鈥淩ent increase is a gift to the wealthy,鈥 letter, Sept. 12. So a writer thinks that landlords are living the high life because of high rents.

Oil by rail is an聽inevitable disaster

Just as I arrived in Alberta, I noticed that every train I saw was at least 50 per cent oil cars. Then the final train was all oil cars. I counted 115-plus cars. I am from sa国际传媒

Woodward鈥檚 strange attitude to accuracy

There鈥檚 huge global media attention on Bob Woodward鈥檚 new book Fear, a million copies of which hit the bookshelves in the U.S. alone on Sept. 11.