Const. Rick O’Brien was a compassionate and delicate human being who was dedicated to serving to individuals in the neighborhood during which he lived.
I want that I had recognized Const. Rick O’Brien as a result of from what I’ve examine him within the newspaper and seen on the TV information, O’Brien not solely represented the perfect in what RCMP officers work so arduous to do daily as they serve and defend the neighborhood with delight and integrity, however he was additionally a really compassionate and delicate human being who was as dedicated to serving to individuals in the neighborhood during which he lived and labored as a lot as he was to preserving everybody protected from hazard.
The neighborhood misplaced a protector, neighbour and a buddy, and O’Brien’s spouse misplaced a loving husband and his youngsters misplaced their father and I can solely guess as to what O’Brien’s fellow RCMP officers should be feeling, however I hope they’ll know that they’re all in my prayers and that of hundreds of different civilians and regulation enforcement places of work all through the province of B.C. and past, and that O’Brien’s household, co-workers and buddies should not alone of their grief.
God bless and thanks all on your service and bravado.
Leslie Benisz, Vancouver
I want to categorical concern with the HIghway 1 hall enchancment program and the misguided strategy to resolving congestion alongside the hall. Whereas further lanes could present non permanent, short-term congestion aid, there are higher methods to supply a long run and extra sustainable answer that higher addresses all of the mission targets in a greater method than including lanes
A rail connection alongside the Freeway 1 hall needs to be prioritized over any roadway enlargement. I want to particularly deal with that rail would supply a extra scalable answer in “planning for neighborhood progress” (goal 2) and a sooner journey possibility to raised fulfill goal 1: “transfer individuals sooner.” Rail transportation additionally addresses all different mission targets higher than freeway widening
Though SkyTrain has been confirmed profitable in densely populated city areas of our area, SkyTrain can not feasibly be expanded all the way in which to Chilliwack. This is able to incur journey occasions longer than driving and be prohibitively costly to assemble quite than exploring cheaper, sooner regional rail expertise.
Noting what seems to be a short-sighted foregone conclusion, the proposed mobility hubs, relaxation areas, and lively transportation enhancements should be designed to accommodate future rail alongside the Hwy 1 hall. With the arrival of this widening, the Hwy 1 hall, and certainly all different corridors, might be topic to expensive iterative widening ‘enhancements’ for many years to return till decongestion pricing, different transportation options, or different transportation demand measures are superior in earnest.
Ian Dewar McPherson, Richmond
Co-ops can serve native wants and preserve capital native
We heartily agree that the United Flower Grower’s Co-op has had an incredible influence on the floriculture trade in British Columbia and performs a vital function in supporting the financial sustainability of its members.
Whereas all co-operatives are democratically owned and ruled, co-ops look very totally different from one another primarily based on the wants of their members and the way they arrange their work.
Though co-ops can function as not-for-profits the place this aligns with their targets, this isn’t the case with United Flower Growers, as Mr. Minter suggests. United Flower Growers competes out there and seeks to generate wealth to distribute to its members, which it could actually solely do as a result of it doesn’t have a not-for-profit standing.
The place globalized corporations extract wealth from the communities during which they function to serve their worldwide stockholders, co-ops like United Flower Grower serve native wants and preserve capital native.
We congratulate the United Flower Growers Co-op and applaud their vibrant instance of financial democracy.
Zoë Creighton & Elvezio Del Bianco, co-executive administrators, British Columbia Co-operative Affiliation
Sufficient of this struggling and indignity
I’m heartbroken and indignant. Born and raised as a white girl in Canada I stroll alongside my path towards reality and reconciliation and turn out to be more and more extra disturbed by what I be taught. Most just lately, “Search the Landfill” — a authorities’s refusal to look Manitoba landfills for our bodies of two (presumably extra) Indigenous girls police suspect have been dumped by a serial killer.
Can’t assist however mirror: My physique in a landfill would positively be recovered. Our confidence comes from social norms referred to as white privilege that we’re paradoxically unaware of and but so accustomed to.
Lifeless. Our bodies. All over the place. Kids in unmarked graves. Our notorious Freeway of Tears. The acronym MMIWG2S rising for Murdered and Lacking Ladies, Women and a couple of Spirits. Human our bodies handled as trash. Sufficient of this struggling and indignity.
Caroline Croft, White Rock
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