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Tuberculosis still a聽threat to everyone

Sunday will be World TB Day. We are so easily numbed by the many terrible events and ongoing disasters in the world today that it is easy to forget about the constant, everyday suffering of so many of our fellow citizens from tuberculosis.

Saving deer from cougar was misguided

Re: 鈥淪aanich resident scares off cougar after it attacks deer,鈥 March聽19. Regarding the Saanich resident who scared a cougar off a deer, I have to say the action was misguided.

Pharmacare criticism doesn鈥檛 stand up

Re: 鈥淣ational pharmacare could hurt patients more than it helps,鈥 comment, March 17. Kristina Acri from the right-wing Fraser Institute claims that pharmacare would hurt more patients than it helps. She provides no numbers to support her claim.

Cougar grabbed terrier in the driveway

Re: 鈥淲hat to do when face-to-face with a cougar,鈥 March 20. An anecdotal and probably unique story might help those with a similar situation achieve a happy outcome.

A tanker a day adds聽little to traffic

Re: 鈥淭ankers will take a toll on killer whales,鈥 comment, March 17. It was public-spirited of the Times 91原创 to run this fundraiser for the good folks at Raincoast Conservation.

Remember the men of聽the Great Escape

It was 75 years ago, on the night and into the early morning of March 24-25, 1944, that 76 Allied air force officers crawled through a narrow tunnel and escaped a Nazi PoW camp in Germany.

Compare Tesla with a聽barrel of gasoline

Re: 鈥淒ead dinosaurs will power us for years,鈥 letter, March 19. The letter-writer expresses some very strange comparisons among a barrel of oil, a Tesla battery and 540 kilograms of gasoline.

Hard to comprehend New Zealand tragedy

Re: 鈥 鈥極ne of New Zealand鈥檚 darkest days,鈥 March 16. One cannot begin to comprehend the tragedy that has occurred in New Zealand鈥檚 Islamic community.

It鈥檚 always possible to聽vanquish debt

Re: 鈥淟iberals spend heavily,鈥 editorial, March 20. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Liberals still support the dairy cartel

Re: 鈥淏illions promised to farmers hit by free-trade agreements,鈥 March 20.