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April 6: Sleeveless dress is聽not聽a muscle shirt

Re: 鈥淔orget dress code; find a worthy cause,鈥 letter, April 3. For the past week, I have been reading some truly ridiculous letters regarding the recently amended dress code at the B.C. legislature.

April 6: NDP is channelling spirit of Big Brother

Re: 鈥淏.C. to create registry of property ownership,鈥 April 3. Not content to catalogue homeowners in the most populous areas of the province, Big Sister Carole James now plans to register all landowners in the province.

April 6: Carbon tax is small聽price to pay

Re: 鈥淐arbon tax will not change behaviour,鈥 letter, April 4. I am saddened by this writer鈥檚 concept that the carbon tax is nothing but a tax grab.

April 6: Playing with climate-change fire

91原创 society is committing a serious crime, like parents who give their children matches to play at lighting fires in the basement of their family home.

April 6: Take a hard look at聽vehicle choices

Re: 鈥淏.C. will consider relief on gas prices,鈥 April 5.

April 6: Banks have good reason for policy

Re: 鈥淲hy mayor feels like a loser after charity win,鈥 April 5. I鈥檓 afraid View Royal Mayor David Screech has had his head in the sand on this one.

April 6: Clearing drug houses will be difficult

Re: 鈥淧rovince to crack down on drug houses: minister,鈥 April 5. Good luck to any landlord in B.C. trying to boot out tenants in a 鈥渄rug house.鈥 Our tenancy laws make it extremely difficult to evict tenants.

April 7: Non-negotiable honesty is needed

Re: 鈥淐onsequences and the 1876 Indian Act,鈥 comment, March 31. I enjoyed the commentary by historian Lynne Stonier-Newman in the Islander, particularly the last few paragraphs.

April 5: Thanks to Grizzlies for聽great season

Re: 鈥淣ewhook era over with Grizzlies鈥 ouster from the BCHL playoffs,鈥 April 3. Thanks to the Victoria Grizzlies for another great season. These young guys are amazing.

April 5: High prices led to聽creation of ICBC

Re: 鈥淚CBC mess not the fault of NDP,鈥 letter, March 24. If my memory is correct, the reason provincial governments took over car insurance decades ago is that private-sector rates were too high for ordinary citizens.