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Closing the Victoria Youth Custody Centre is an almost indescribably foolish idea. It鈥檚 barely understandable when thinking about it in the short term 鈥� which is all the government is interested in. It鈥檚 absurd when considering it in the medium term.

I don鈥檛 take the bait anymore. When someone sends me a link to a video that promises to be 鈥渢he funniest thing you鈥檒l ever see!鈥� or the cutest, or the strangest, most profound or amazing, or whatever superlative is applied to it, I don鈥檛 watch it.

A trio of University of Victoria mechanical and electrical engineers explain in their April 16 commentary that we need land-based sewage treatment because 鈥渢here is too much uncertainty and thus too much risk for us not to take action 鈥� .

My Dear SBNR Friend (continued), The questions I posed yesterday are challenging for me.

British Columbia鈥檚 representative for children and youth was granted authority to advocate for certain young adults last year. But giving her the right to advocate apparently doesn鈥檛 involve accepting the ideas she鈥檚 advancing.

When Pete Seeger, musician, activist and humanist, died in January, it gave me pause for thought about what I had learned in 1963 from Pete about the importance of music.

Mayor Barb Desjardins of Esquimalt suggests that moving ahead with the wastewater treatment plan for the region鈥檚 core area is an unpopular decision.

My Dear SBNR Friend, I am fairly confident there are not many Sunday mornings you wake up and wonder whether you might go to church. Participation in any formal institutional expression of religion simply never crosses your mind.

A note I received from a reader, politely asking for clarity on our policy regarding the enabling of comments on stories.

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