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With a civic election just around the corner, this sustained barrage of grassroots discontent should encourage prospective council candidates to arrive on the hustings with an up-to-date understanding of the hot button issues related to commercial and residential development proposals in this community.

It is preposterous to suggest that a firefighter cannot make her way to a fire hall unless it is numbered!

My best wishes to those who are addicted, and my deepest admiration to those who have chosen not to start. Stay strong.

It is time to throw your hat in the ring!

We need as many fish in our sea as possible to represent all of us in the likely turbulent years ahead.

Water has a good case for feeling left out.

The next 10 years will be highly critical to cut emissions, transition rapidly to renewable energy, phase out existing coal oil and gas infrastructure, and stop building new fossil fuel infrastructure. Current oil and gas project approvals must be retracted because of force majeure, including for Woodfibre LNG.

In January 2021, when Research Co. and Glacier Media first asked Canadians about noise, we thought the situation was dire. More than a quarter of Canadians (27 per cent) told us that their city or town had become noisier in the past 12 months.

Greater Victoria is overseen by a patchwork of councils, each with its own agenda and suite of services. No other Canadian community of this size is divided this way.