Is Saanich council out of touch? Infrastructure deficit looms
OPINION BY BRUCE AND LAURIE KENNEDY Many on Saanich council included housing affordability in their election platforms and now seem unable to grasp how this sort of tax increase affects…
Bone-rattling roads rev up regional ratepayers
When you drive down the road, you shouldn’t have to go down the potholes, but that’s increasingly the case for residents of Greater Victoria. Roads scarred by spine-jarring potholes create…
And the ‘bumpiest road-in- Greater-Victoria’ is….
Central Saanich stretch to Butchart Gardens judged ‘Bumpiest road in Greater Victoria’ winner The width, quality and condition of the Central Saanich road leading into Butchart Gardens received multiple entries…
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JOIN US 10 Good Reasons to join Grumpy Taxpayer$ 1. Our approach works. We lead the opposition against the 2022 Commonwealth Games bid, what would have been an expensive $1.5…
Where’s the declaration of governance emergency?
BY JOHN TRELEAVEN, VICE-CHAIRPERSON, GRUMPY TAXPAYER$ The Climate Emergency Declaration recently passed by the 24 directors around the Capital Regional District board table will be severely hobbled by its fractured…
Why not study idea of regional police force?
This interview was done Mar. 13, 2019 with Nicole Crescenzi , a reporter with Victoria News, Black Press regarding calls from Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps and Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins…
Where is Victoria’s big-city mayor voice?
Without a voice around a national table our community continues as ‘a little Victoria,’ a collection of 13 jurisdictions that’s not living up to its considerable potential. The forum for…
Permanent residents count in region closer to 6.6 %
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following this article, Coun. Laurel Collins conceded her statement was misleading and has notified the media to run a correction which has been done. The Assertion: In a…
Saanich’s crumbling infrastructure a priority
BY BRUCE AND LAURIE KENNEDY When newly-minted Mayor Fred Haynes and council sit down to plan priorities for the next four years, they must focus more on renewing the aging…