Remember Where You Are
I go yearly to the cenotaph Victory Square Remembrance Day ceremony and stand in the same place, just off Dunsmuir Street. This year the pinheads at Global Television decided to park their on-location truck where, in years past, I stand and partake in this quite somber occasion. Besides taking up prime real estate, the constant noise from running the truck impeded us from hearing the ceremony, and the fumes we were subjected to from the exhaust made for a a very uncomfortable situation. Besides the fact of disrespecting the idling-engine by-laws and severely adding to poor air quality, when I approached an official from the station to express my concerns, I was cut off and in a very unprofessional, defensive attitude told that their only concern was the “viewing audience." I have asked the station for an apology to the veterans, the organizers, and the public that attended. Still waiting, Global.
–Paul Porter
It's Getting Hot in Here
(Re: “Extinction crisis signals that it’s time to change course,” Nov. 20.) I agree with David Suzuki: Canada should cut carbon emissions by one third within a decade to keep the promises we made at the December UN climate conference in Paris. Our government should honour its promise to the people of Canada and those made in Paris. There should be NO further development of the tar sands or any other fossil-fuel development. Leave it in the ground or our children and grandchildren will fry.
–Larry Colcy
You Don’t Own the West End
(Re: “Rant/Rave,” Nov. 10, 2016.) To the West End resident upset about changing demographics: The First Nations have been a minority in their place of birth for hundreds of years. Suck it up, buttercup.
–Joe Buckskin
