The palpable distress in B.C. Ferries has to be of concern to all Islanders. We rely on consistent service and we are not receiving it these days.
Conditions of service, including pay, are key to retaining trained staff who see career options in remaining with B.C. Ferries. It seems that too many temporary workers are being hired who have little loyalty to their jobs.Let’s hope that ferry management soon gets a grip on the challenges facing the corporation. The service is too important to Islanders to be left to chance.
You would think the people running B.C. Housing would be fully conversant with the history of social housing in B.C. as reported by Greg Sutton in his 2016 book, Still Renovating, and the fact that no amount of “supply” of “market rate” housing will ever make housing affordable because “market rate” rents have no relationship whatsoever to what it costs to build and maintain housing.
If Coun. Karen Harper can’t tell the difference between a member of the public voicing a concern and someone whose paid job it is to influence her to vote in a way that favours their client, then we are all in deep trouble. I urge anyone who doesn’t think that this situation is sustainable to contact their MP and tell them.
I would like the city council/mayor to explain the logic behind these decisions, because I am certainly missing their point here.Elaine AzevedoCrime and punishment, and our tunnel vision Yet more stories about the Victoria crime scene: offices fleeing the downtown area, reduction of late-night police patrols, mindless vandalism at the downtown library.