Now that Premier David Eby says we are not trading with the U.S., maybe he will do what John Horgan wouldn’t, even though more than 90% of his constituents wanted it: Stop the idiotic changing of the clock!

The sun comes up, the sun goes down, the only thing it does is disrupt peoples lives.

William Buckle

Mill Bay

My wife and I attended Teiya Kasahara’s concert, The Queen in Me, on Wednesday at the McPherson Playhouse. The beautiful, witty, and poignant story of passion, struggle, and victory was incredibly inspiring. I was grateful to witness the story of this amazing singer.

We did, however, have an unfortunate experience after the concert. When the lights came up, my wife had her white stick showing she is visually impaired, and we were moving to the space behind our seats to wait for the house to vacate.

The couple next to us were visibly agitated and pushing for us to get moving faster.

I was standing behind our seats when, from the fourth seat on the row, a person literally vaulted over the row and angrily bolted past me.

Her companion followed. Neither of us had seen such inappropriate behaviour at performances such as this in venues such as the McPherson.

The irony wasn’t lost on us that we all had come to see performance by someone who has had to pushback against being relegated to the margins for being different — and these two people became angry at having to wait on a visually impaired person for two minutes.

While no heroic efforts are required of you, just being patient and waiting the 30 seconds to one minute it might take before you get to a space where you can move at your desired pace without shoving the person is a nice thing to do.

Please consider some additional courtesy to help a person with a disability who perhaps doesn’t get to move through the world as easily as you.

Jack Edwards

Victoria

Official Community Plan or no OCP, Victoria cannot support unlimited developing of (un)affordable housing or what other name you call it simply due to limited land available in this area.

The city is surrounded on three of its four boundaries by water and on the fourth side by high hills and farmland. This urban area can’t become another Vancouver by spreading out all over the south Island.

Building skyscrapers won’t work, either, so let’s put a clamp on the developing........

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