Letters May 11: ICBC rebate is vote-buying; protect free speech; homes, not hotels, needed in Langford

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Readers’ letters, Victoria Times Colonist, May 11, 2024

Even with insurance, he paid full cost It really is just common sense to look at lower ICBC rates and realize that ICBC has to be paying out less in order to make it all work.

I am sure the Vancouver Island railway lines could be refurbished and rolling stock purchased with at least some of those funds.They are buying votes, not dealing with debt What a joke! What a pre-election attempt to buy votes! The provincial deficit will be about $8 billion this fiscal year and is projected to be $7.8 billion next year.

People gave their lives to preserve the right to free speech, which does not exist in maybe 50 per cent of the world we leave in. We must preserve it, even when we don’t like it.Her achievements more than forgotten postcards In the 1970s, that “Esquimalt woman,” Sherry Kirkvold, was my student at the University of Victoria while I taught botany and plant ecology for Marc Bell when he was on his sabbatical.

Personally, I wouldn’t mind having an updated “white pages,” with mobile numbers and email addresses. If I lived in one of the affected communities, I might hope the library refuses to pay up. Even if that meant people would know about my overdue books.Victoria carries burden for entire region The recent Raeside cartoon that depicted the disorder on Pandora Avenue as representative of the City of Victoria was out of line.

As a former education administrator, I draw on an analogy of placing most ­students with physical, behavioural, mental, addiction, etc. challenges in one school. Imagine if such a task force could measure its success by having every homeless person housed or receiving care in an appropriate treatment facility by working together.

 

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