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Re: 鈥淕ender-issues talk in Oak Bay cut short as protests break out amid packed crowd,鈥� May 3. Two staples of a free country are freedom of speech and its subset freedom to protest.

Re: 鈥淪tudents march for climate action,鈥� May 4. Students who take time off from school to protest inaction on fighting climate change, calling it a 鈥渟trike,鈥� have only shown their ignorance.

Traditionally, Nurses鈥� Week messages are full of images of smiling, caring nurses who are referred to as the 鈥渕ost trusted鈥� health professionals.

Re: 鈥淣ew plaque recognizes early black B.C. pioneer,鈥� May 5. Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was not the 鈥渢he first black person to hold public office in British Columbia.鈥� He was the first black person to hold elected public office here.

Re: 鈥淭he origin of Esquimalt鈥檚 Halfway House,鈥� May 5. As the great-great granddaughter of James William and Elizabeth Everson Bland, I can offer a little more to this colourful story.

Re: 鈥淪tudents march for climate action,鈥� May 4. Bravo to the students marching for climate-change action. The older generations, to which I belong, have failed miserably to take significant action.

How this provincial government has managed to evade its fundamental responsibility to provide health care astounds me. Access to general practitioners is central to preventative health care.

It is time for taxpayers to speak up loudly about our health care. We pay to support this system and those who work in it.

Re: 鈥淧ay for your own transportation choice,鈥� letter, April 30. I鈥檇 like to thank the writer for his letter, which strongly, though inadvertently, supported a much-increased gasoline tax. (Tongue firmly in cheek here.

Re: 鈥淣ew Crystal Pool could be built on Central Middle School field,鈥� May聽4. I love the Pandora Avenue and Fort Street bike lanes, and look forward to planned north-south routes.