Waiting for an accident in a protected area Two recent Times Colonist articles concerning the Michalis bulk carrier dragging her anchor off Arbutus Ridge failed to mention just how close this anchorag
e is situated to shore and the Parkland Fuel Depot and secondly, it is dangerously exposed to a 16-kilometre stretch of open water which experiences regular high winds.
The traffic coming from Keating industrial area, concrete trucks, garbage trucks, paving trucks, semi trucks with 53-foot trailers etc. with their destinations being north of Keating Cross Road now go up Central Saanich Road passing Keating Elementary School and residential areas to get to Island View Road and then turning left on Pat Bay.
In B.C., “funding independent schools” actually means granting a subsidy to those schools based on 50 per cent of operating costs of other schools in the same district. Independent schools pay their own bricks-and-mortar capital costs and the other 50 per cent of their operating costs. And don’t forget: children attending independent schools are B.C. citizens and offspring of taxpayers, just like pupils in public schools.
2. Victoria council is selling a load of BS when they say the only way to get more affordable housing is to allow developers to build 28- and 30-storey towers. Very few of the units in these towers will be affordable.
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