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Readers’ letter, Victoria Times Colonist, March 26, 2024

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Don’t override local governments on housing; don’t allow camping in Irving park; God at public functions; wearing poppies

Praise for trail upkeep; appreciating the Paint-In; too many events in James Bay; policing decision in Surrey

Give clean-energy grant to (non-electric) cyclists; applause for View Royal mayor; communities already saturated

Victoria Times Colonist letters to the editor, March 16, 2023.

Betty Edelman spends about 25 hours a month doing volunteer work at or for the Dunedin Public Library.

James Langton Canadian merger-and-acquisition activity hit another all-time high in the first quarter of 2021, according to new data from Crosbie & Co. The Toronto-based investment bank reported that there were 1,007 M&A deals announced in the first quarter, up 8% from the prior quarter and 26% from the same quarter last year, to a new record high for deal volume. Deal value totalled $81 billion, down slightly from the fourth quarter’s $84 billion. “While some of this record activity likely...

James Langton Canadian merger-and-acquisition activity hit another all-time high in the first quarter of 2021, according to new data from Crosbie & Co. The Toronto-based investment bank reported that there were 1,007 M&A deals announced in the first quarter, up 8% from the prior quarter and 26% from the same quarter last year, to a new record high for deal volume. Deal value totalled $81 billion, down slightly from the fourth quarter’s $84 billion. “While some of this record activity likely...

300 to 400 million! Think about it: that’s around one million per day, a billion every three years. Are there enough small birds in Canada to sustain this slaughter? I think that, at that rate, we would have run out of birds some years ago. I recently read an article in the Guardian, called “Meaty meals and play stop cats killing wildlife,” about a scientific study done in the United Kingdom, the premise being to understand why some well-fed (but not all) housecats hunt. Their estimate...