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There seems to be such a hatred of the automobile by Victoria city council that all other considerations fall by the wayside. With the notable exception of the newest member of the group, and possibly one or two other councilors, there is to be no consideration whatsoever of any motorized transportation. The lack of accommodation for visually impaired pedestrians at traffic intersection crosswalks is a recent oversight by this same city council. Modest changes to Clover Point can be made so those with ambulatory problems can gain access and have the same enjoyment of this jewel of an obser...

I worked in psychiatry in Victoria in the late 1980s and it was a revolving door for those who returned to the community without a stable and secure environment once their hospitalization ended. The victimization and criminality that is being experienced today had not ­materialized to today’s levels, but then, as now, it was inhuman to watch the never-ending cycle: hospitalize, stabilize and release. Governments and society must acknowledge that there are those among us who do not have the capacity to care for themselves and we as civil society must care for them. We have allowed this ...

What about your home insurance? Oh please! Would the wonderful residents of Victoria and subscribers of this newspaper occupy themselves with some subject other than Clover Point? Many of us in the rest of this island would be hard-pressed to point out this place on a map let alone find it on the ground. How about home insurance, for instance? We live in a single-family home in Nanaimo. Our house insurance quote has arrived, the quoted amount has increased 10 per cent since last year and is up 49.6 per cent from the past four years. We insure with a reputable company and have for many ye...

No such excitement on this day, though. The road is largely empty, with plenty of vacant curbside spaces for cars. Most of the vehicles sport the window decals that Oak Bay issues to drivers who live in residents-only parking zones. The calm is somewhat surprising given an Oak Bay Facebook group’s recent raging debate over who gets to park where on roads like this. By the tone of some of the comments you would think there was a non-stop game of vehicular musical chairs going on, with furious homeowners racing to the boulevard to repel invaders at barbecue-fork point.

The kerfuffle involved a woman who, after jumping up to dance, was yelled at by the man seated behind her. Apparently he used un-Sarahlike language. Readers leaped into the debate. Half of them argued that the angry man was right, that when you pay good money to go to a show you don’t want to spend the evening six inches from someone’s butt swaying away to I Will Remember You. The other half countered that this was a concert, not a funeral, and Victoria crowds need to remove their broomsticks. When it comes to sheer passion combined with volume, the McLachlan fuss really did set the bar a...