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Letter: A garbage bear is a dead bear

It’s time we all got smarter than bears and secure our garbage,…

  • Jun 9, 2023

 

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Letter: Councillors should not flout laws

Dear Mayor and North Cowichan Councillors: I was disgusted by the recent…

  • Jun 8, 2023

 

City of Duncan workers clean up around the playground site at Centennial Park which was set on fire during the wee hours of Friday morning. (Chadd Cawson/Citizen)

Letter: Centennial Park playground isn’t ruined

Last week both the Cowichan Valley Citizen and Victoria Times Colonist blasted…

  • Jun 8, 2023

 

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Letter: Local crisis management lacking

Dear CVRD Board of Directors: Current early-drought conditions across Cowichan are a…

  • Jun 8, 2023
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Letter: The bus is the best way to commute

With rising gas prices and stress who wouldn’t like to save and…

  • Jun 8, 2023
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Letter: Gender-neutral terminology a slippery slope

Kudos to Tek Manhas and Bruce Findlay for opposing the use of…

  • Jun 8, 2023
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Letter: Cowichan on ‘naughty list’ for lack of housing supply

Dear CVRD Board of Directors: Vancouver’s Sun’s June 4, 2023 story squarely…

  • Jun 8, 2023
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Letter: Thanks to all of the helpers

Our daughter was involved in an accident June 7 and thankfully is…

  • Jun 8, 2023
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Pieter Bruegel’s painting Icarus Falling Into the Sea shows the earliest use of a plow. (Pietrer Bruegel artwork)

Mary Lowther column: The downside of tilling the soil

Centuries of constant hoeing or hand-pulling for commercial farmers and backyard growers alike

  • Jun 3, 2023
Pieter Bruegel’s painting Icarus Falling Into the Sea shows the earliest use of a plow. (Pietrer Bruegel artwork)
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Letter: People don’t want Canada Day cancelled

It serves a small group of ideologically driven elites

  • Jun 1, 2023
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Letter: We need less taxation

Where in the heck are their brains?

  • Jun 1, 2023
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Letter: Put money into B.C. health system, not U.S. pockets

Adrian Dix must realize that the medical system is not his personal fiefdom

  • May 30, 2023
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Letter: Blame new fire hall for huge tax increase

Mine comes in at a whopping 26 per cent over last year

  • May 30, 2023
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Letter: Tax increase a cash grab

In three years my taxes have gone up about 60 per cent

  • May 30, 2023
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Letter: Deli manager makes customer’s day with turkey sandwich

To my amazement and disappointment, all the sandwiches were made with mustard

  • May 26, 2023
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Letter: Police prioritize de-escalation, but must act decisively to stop imminent threats

Across Canada, members of the RCMP respond to an average of three million calls every year

  • May 19, 2023
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Letter: No decisive blow to rail on Island

Either missed or simply did not understand the business case put forward by the ICF

  • May 18, 2023
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Letter: Duncan paramedics wonderful

Thanks to all of you who do such a wonderful job!

  • May 18, 2023
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Letter: Fire bans needed

Common sense is obviously in short supply

  • May 18, 2023
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Letter: Beer drinking stunt doesn’t address problems

I want my elected officials to be showing professionalism and leadership

  • May 15, 2023
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