To the Editor

Dear Editor,

COVID-19 is a serious illness that has had a virtual stranglehold on the world for 18 months. Physicians and researchers now know much more about it than we did a year ago. Yet, the medical approach to early management of the illness is largely unchanged: When an individual has symptoms and a positive COVID test,

he/she is advised to isolate at home and return to hospital when and if they become very sick but they are given no effective therapies to use at home.

Here are a few impor

Dear Editor,

It always amazes me how some people love to hate the USA and almost everything it stands for. All the while people from around the world are desperate to immigrate there, legally or illegally, risking their lives, many even losing them. Some condemn the Republican governed states for their freer gun laws and less restrictive COVID rules, but many from Democrat governed states are moving to Texas and Florida so their children can attend school , they can run a business or work and fe

To these two DIS-honorable MLAs (Tyler Shandro, Dan Williams) and the mayor of Valleyview (Vern Lymburner):

Those of you who denied that a meeting could begin with a group of seniors in their own seniors’ facility if Todd Loewn was present (in the riding of Todd Loewen) - you are NOT the police, you are NOT the ones to decide if an MLA can be present at a political meeting within their own riding; you are NOT a dictatorship even though you act like it.

Also, UNMASK, and maybe if you start

Dear Editor,

I am reminded every day why we bought our condo across the street from Anderson Park, the squeals of laughter from little ones finding a stick or leaf on the path, learning to ride a bike or scooter, being lifted up on the big rock or if big enough to climb up “all by myself.” The happy dogs walking their humans, the seniors pushing their walkers or speeding around on their electric scooters, but this past weekend was prime. Saturday was a church picnic, the Park was fil