Readers' letters, Victoria Times Colonist, Dec. 20, 2023 - Victoria Times Colonist
Reopen Clover Point to cars; keep the Centennial Square fountain; how we vote
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Reopen Clover Point to cars; keep the Centennial Square fountain; how we vote
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This week, I sent my daughter a note reporting 4,000 new cases in B.C. over the Easter weekend. The response from Down Under: “Zero here.” The lockdown ended, her mother-in-law is visiting and they’re off on a wine tour in the nearby Hunter Valley; all bittersweet for my other daughter, who has not had anyone outside immediate family in her Ontario home for a year. Granted, Australia does not share a lengthy and porous international border as we do. Still, goods and people do enter the country and anyone arriving from abroad automatically spends two weeks in a quarantine hotel.