Opinion

The election of Elizabeth May as Canada’s first-ever Green Party MP was supposed to be a breakthrough for environmental issues. Too bad she blew it.

Dear editor, I moved to the Comox Valley in 1970, and over the next 10 years, kept hearing about the "second crossing," which 12 or 13 years later became the 17th Street Bridge. In 1986 I returned and for the past eight to 10 years, I have listened to the rumblings of a third crossing — wherever and whenever?

Dear editor, I would like to support the three Courtenay councillors who practised their own form of civil disobedience by standing up for those who voted them and walked out of the council meeting that was about to ram through a decision made in a closed door meeting of the Comox Valley Regional District board.

Dear editor, I hate arguing over a tax cut, or a tax increase.

Dear editor, I just had a bit of a shock: Cumberland Village Council recently denied The Big Time Out's permit to hold the festival in Cumberland Village Park, the festival's home for the past seven years. This really doesn't make sense to me.

Dear editor, According to recent accounts in the local newspapers, the Comox councillors can't seem to come to an agreement regarding the passing of the proposed and long-worked-on Official Community Plan.

Dear editor, I was round the marina on Sunday morning. The old Edgewater carpark had 60 cars parked and it was not full! This is essentially the private marina park. Where are these vehicles going to park when the new hotel is built?

Dear editor, My goodness! How have all the people in the Comox Valley survived all these years with a hospital so precariously far away? Did the Puntledge and Tsolum rivers, Courtenay estuary and other waterways just become terrifyingly dangerous over the past few years?

Dear editor, In regards to the choice of hospital location in the Comox Valley, have these points been considered?

Dear sir, In a letter, S. Nielsen alludes to the ferry employees being overpaid. I have one question for you. What hole in the ground have you had your head in?