The old Pattullo Bridge, spanning the Fraser River between Surrey and New Westminster, was opened in 1937 and named after B.C.’s premier then, “Duff” Pattullo, a man no one remembers now.

The new bridge will be opened early in 2026 and is supposed to continue to be named after Pattullo.

The funding for this structure was announced in February 2018 by ­then-premier John Horgan, probably the most popular B.C. politician in recent memory.

He was a down-to-earth guy whom people could relate to. Unfortunately, he passed away from cancer on Nov. 12, 2024.

It would be much more appropriate to name the replacement bridge after him than after a premier who was in power 90 years ago, and whom no one remembers now.

Bruce Edwards

Saanich

All this juvenile Trump-bashing while we have a debt crisis and friends of China are waiting to convert us to statism.

Communism has many faces and is sworn to degrade our system in the­ ­disguise of a thousand “Trojan horses.”

It seems our neighbours with the same problem have a greater awareness that a nation divided has no walls of defence. Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s brashness. His waste and fraud war is at least holding ground.

We seem blind to these accumulating “bills” that give Prime Minister Mark Carney dictator-like controls.

His empty budget promises showed he can game us with this schoolyard “elbow” smugness.

As long as we allow ourselves to be ­distracted by stupid name-calling, our real enemies continue to gain ground.

A better hockey analogy would refer to the danger of “skating on thin ice.”

There are plenty of signs to be seen.

Russell Thompson

Victoria

Re: “Newest J-Pod orca calf missing, presumed dead,” Nov. 2.

With news of yet another dead whale, I am reminded of what E.O. Wilson, one of the world’s leading conservationists, so eloquently stated.

“As we continue to let species perish, we’re inevitably going to feel isolated and bereft in the world they’ve left behind. Environmental losses will translate into personally felt absences. What’s different about environmental loss is its quiet nature. There’s no one storming out, slamming a door or........

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