For most of my 90-plus years the TC has been a necessary part of my routine. I begin with reading the obituaries and save, until last, the Comment page.
I would like to extend my personal words of gratitude to Dave Obee and the Times Colonist for all that they do to make Christmas a happier time for those who may be less fortunate.
Through telemedicine using their app I was able to speak to a doctor who then booked me an appointment with another doctor face to face at the phone company’s shiny new medical office. For more than 40 years these forests have produced millions in revenue for local businesses, property owners, taxpayers and their dependent families that spend these dollars locally. The local economic benefit of the proposed 30-year carbon contract is — at best — much smaller and unproven.
The data used in the analysis is also highly suspect, suggesting that these forests can only produce annual growth of under 20,000 cubic metres per year. Most coastal Douglas fir forests have annual yields per hectare far in excess of that. Using faulty data produces useless options, and that’s what North Cowichan has achieved in this boondoggle.
Warehousing the entire population of vulnerable human beings subsisting on Victoria’s streets in one giant Tower of Doom, rather than to house homeless people in the tiny settlements into which they customarily organize themselves, illustrates the cruel malevolence of the abomination known as “the market.
About six years ago, the park began to be neglected and paths became overgrown with weeds, and the rose gardens disappeared. Then came the bulldozers and for the next year the park was emptied of everything, and inaccessible to the public.When my husband came out of the hospital a couple of years ago, I couldn’t even take him for a walk around the point as all the paths had been covered in small aggregate and dust prohibiting the use of walkers or wheelchairs.
Our provincial governments play a game in the media called “fun with words and numbers,” ignoring the tax credit system to claim only 22 per cent coverage for health care because more money means more resources to get re-elected, provincially.