Bill Williamson

I'd love to have council candidates like you describe to vote for.

Get used to food shortages in the very near future. California is not going to provide us with the usual abundance of fresh produce we are used to eating. We are not going to get food air-cargoed in from South Africa, Venezuela, and New Zealand. 100 years ago Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands were net food exporters to BC. We could feed ourselves and others but not with Mangoes in January, of course. Start buying as much as you can from our local farmers right now because they need the support in order to build towards the food abundance that we will need starting next year. We need to build back our ability to be more self sufficient in a way that globalization of our food supply has weaned us from.

Get used to food shortages in the very near future. California is not going to provide us with the usual abundance of fresh produce we are used to eating. We are not going to get food air-cargoed in from South Africa, Venezuela, and New Zealand. 100 years ago Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands were net food exporters to BC. We could feed ourselves and others but not with Mangoes in January, of course. Start buying as much as you can from our local farmers right now because they need the support in order to build towards the food abundance that we will need starting next year. We need to build back our ability to be more self sufficient in a way that globalization of our food supply has weaned us from.

All of the new buildings going up and already here are bland, faceless, square boxes devoid of any unique features that make them interesting to look at and improve the sense of our city being different from Anytown, USA, or for that matter, Lethbridge or Mississaga.

"The Law is an Ass" some wise person quoted long ago. Cases and judgements like this seem to clearly prove the truth of it. "The Rule of Law" is not necessarily "Justice"

Killing for no good purpose is disgusting and against sensible conservation practices.

Killing for no good purpose is disgusting and against sensible conservation practices.

What a wonderfully rational approach to the hysteria around the 'dangers' of urban wildlife.

What a wonderfully rational approach to the hysteria around the 'dangers' of urban wildlife.

The ever articulate, multi-syllabic Gene nails it again. Great piece. I'll always see those square, featureless boxes piled up as 'file drawers for people' in the future. There is not one amazing, innovative building being put up in Victoria which is why everyone fawned over the only mildly different Atrium. It was the last squeak of imagination here in town. Are there no architects in Victoria with the ability to design something not square and boring?

As a lifelong member of the provincial NDP, I cancelled my membership the day Horgan said the dam would go ahead. I have never given them another dime and I never will. Go Green.

Gene is brilliant at clearly expressing our inchoate feelings of homeness in the few neighbourhoods left that are still examples of 'human scale' that vertical human storage highrises do not deliver. Neighbourhoods like Fernwood, Oaklands, and Gorge-Tillicum are examples of what I believe should be our future not the horrors of the Hudson 'neighbourhood'.

I feel abused and deceived by the BC Government that should be above this kind of lying.

I feel abused and deceived by the BC Government that should be above this kind of lying.

It's a wonderful piece of nature that needs to be saved.