The Silver Lining for Canada

(Sent to the Alberni Valley News – February 7, 2025 – Published Feb 18, 2025 ) Dear Editor, One thing gives me hope in a way I haven’t felt since I was a teenager.  Trump’s threats against our economy and our sovereignty as a nation have ignited the being of Canadians. I don’t see it …

No big Surprise Turnout is Low

(This letter was sent to the Alberni Valley News on January 2, 2024) Dear Editor, Like Mrs. Chen, I was left questioning why turnout was so abysmally low in the City by-election. People are cynical and disconnected in general right now. Political advertising is negative, gimmicky, even threatening.  Who wants to engage with that? Where …

Want to increase civility and feel happier, delete Facebook.

(This letter was inspired by this Editorial in the AV News October 25, 2022) Dear Editor, and Port Alberni We have a problem. Facebook, and the way its algorithms, groups and interface manipulate us subconsciously to react and enflame, has ripped the heart out of this so-called Community with a Heart. An article published in …