Editor's Note: It is advised that if people intend to visit any of the stores listed below, or in the vicinity of Joyce Avenue and Alberni Street, that they call ahead to ensure the store is open Tuesday, July 21. Canada Safeway has informed the Peak it will be using a generator that day and will remain open.
Outage clarification
I have been in talks with BC Hydro for several months now in regard to two upcoming outages, their dates, and which businesses will be affected on either date [“Power outage necessary for conversion upgrade,” July 8].
I think the Peak’s article would have people believe that the Town Centre Mall will be closed on July 21 which is untrue, but we will be affected on September 17 along with the hospital.
Here is a list of the businesses on this property that will be affected on July 21: Town Centre Hotel, Tim Hortons, A&W Restaurant, Canadian Tire, Safeway, Mark’s Work Wearhouse, Dollarama, Staples, RONA Building Centre, Starbucks, RBC and the rest of the Barnet Street apartment building.
This will affect hundreds of people’s livelihoods, so clarification is important.
Clint Loan, mall manager
Town Centre Mall
Fire season
Cycling from south of town three to four times per week, as well as picking up trash on a small portion of Highway 101 bi-monthly, I am troubled and appalled by the number of fresh cigarette butts being tossed from vehicle windows onto dry, crispy grasses [“Careless embers,” July 8].
Such a practice is a potential disaster waiting to happen. Come on folks, please practice changing a bad habit, and help keep our communities as fire safe as possible.
Jo Thomas
Highway 101
Safer world, surely
Rest assured, Bill C-51 will stop terrorism in its tracks [“Questions and answers, myths and facts,” July 1]. “The new law is designed to stop terrorist attacks in the planning stages.”
How is this going to be accomplished? I’m not quite sure yet. I assume Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) will be monitoring Facebook and Twitter for terrorist-like rumblings. We do know that C-51 will “stop known radicalized individuals from boarding a plane bound for a terrorist conflict zone.” Does that include Disneyland?
Rest assured, if some radicalized youths who want to fight with terrorists are found, CSIS will be talking to their parents after they disrupt their travel.
Dag nabbit voters. It’s only a matter of time before they discover soft targets in Canada. We need this bill to keep Canadians safe. There are thousands of terrorists waiting in the wings.
John Weston and the Conservative Party of Canada have determined that global warming isn’t a prominent threat but terrorism is. Weston would be writing about global warming instead of terrorism if global warming were the real threat...wouldn’t he?
Weston’s our guy in Ottawa. He wouldn’t just say it if he didn’t believe it. C-51 will “give the government an appeal mechanism to stop information from being released in security certificate proceedings because it could harm a source.” Sounds like bafflegab, but Weston is okay with it so it must be okay and he must have read the whole bill from start to finish.
I sure feel safe now that Weston has explained how C-51 is going to halt terrorism. One less thing to think about.
The war on terror. I’m sure it will be as effective as the war on drugs. Remember the days before the Conservatives became the government? The drug-related drive-by shootings, the targeted killings, the special branch of the RCMP called IHIT?
Since the Conservatives got tough on crime that’s a thing of the past. Now we’re going to do the same for terrorism.
Henry Hill
Bowness Avenue
