(Sent to the Globe and Mail June 30, 2023 – letters@globeandmail.com) Dear Editor, Canada is not the United States of America yet we have gradually followed that country’s decades long descent into a world where education is only available to those with the ability to pay up front or for 20 years after completion. It …
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When will the City take responsibility for Safety?
In Response to Alberni Valley News: “City of Port Alberni prioritizes funding for pair of deadly intersections” Dear Editor, In 2015/2016 when I was on the City Council that helped create the bike lanes, they were intended to only be a first step. Both the Active Transportation Plan and the Food Security and Climate Disruption …
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No Honours for Genocidal Acts
(This letter was sent to Port Alberni City Council on February 24, 2023) Dear Mayor and Council, I write on this important day February 24, 2023. 81 years ago today, after decades of anti-Asian racism and resentment whipped up by prominent politicians like our own AW Neill, Canadians of Japanese descent were forcibly removed from …