Education is a right. Make it free.

(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 …

Fire and flood proves Government fails on island transport

(This letter was sent to multiple Island newspapers on June 8, 2023. Published: June 12 Times Colonist.) Dear Editor,We have four alternatives to Highway 4. Three roads are controlled by Mosaic Forest Company and one railway escaped the fire and floods but not decades of Government neglect. It is time for Government’s stubborn, ideological resistance …

Becoming One City for Unity and Democracy

(Sent to the Alberni Valley News May 8 2023 - Published on May 24) Dear Editor, I was born in Beaver Creek and now live within City limits. I believe the residents of this place we all call Port Alberni are being poorly served by their democratic systems. Sproat Lake residents worry a major development …