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Letters: Manning Park, snow hills, anti-vaxx, urban growth, smoking crack

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Re: Feb. 6 article about lack of snow on local ski hills.

It puzzles us to hear that local hills are in trouble as here at Manning Park ski hill we have a base of 123 centimetres and our downhill and cross-country conditions have been terrific and fully open since before the Christmas break.

To make the story positive, it could have at the very least included the fact that most B.C. ski areas have reciprocal agreements with each other allowing season-pass holders from one area to ski at a discounted rate at another area. People with season passes at affected mountains can ski for a discounted rate at mountains like ours which still have good conditions.

When the Vancouver media states that all the local hills are closed or near to it and the only skiing available is in Whistler or the Okanagan they do their readers a disservice. Not only are we open with great skiing/snowboarding and snowshoeing, our cross-country conditions have been far superior this season to both Callaghan Valley and Cypress, because our snow is drier than any of the North Shore mountains or Whistler.

Troy Davis, Manning Park Resort

Dumber than a dead stump?

Columnist and broadcaster Rex Murphy said something the other day about the anti-vaccine mob that I wish I had said — that anti-vaxxers have the intellectual power of a dead tree stump.

The anti-vaxxers are found in various forms yet they have the common trait of being cognitively disconnected from reality. They have taken as truth that personal beliefs trump science, which is simply absurd. There is no debate about the science and benefits of vaccines.

Vaccinations must be made mandatory straight across the board. Every single objection to vaccinations has been answered by people who actually know what they are talking about.

Robert Rock, Mission

No right to put others at risk

I think the “crunchy” parents are missing the point about vaccines. It is not whether your child will survive certain diseases but whether or not you are responsible for harming or even killing someone else’s child.

If you wish not to vaccinate, that’s your prerogative. Just do not send your child out into the school system, mall, playground, drop off centre or anywhere else where a vulnerable child might be.

My nephew is battling leukemia and should not have to be imperilled by your ignorance, believing in Hollywood actress and Playboy bunny Jenny McCarthy instead of scientists.

Michael Sheppard, West Vancouver

Slower growth, lower prices

What people like letter-writer Derek Cheung overlook is that housing demand in Metro Vancouver isn’t just driven by population growth but also by real-estate speculation.

I read recently that one in five condos in the area is purchased solely as an investment. So curtailing development growth and density could actually have a cooling effect on Vancouver’s investment market and end up lowering prices. It would also curb tax revenue for municipalities, so it likely won’t happen.

Charles Leduc, Vancouver

Is anyone cutting addiction?

The authors of the study, We need somewhere to smoke crack, defend VANDU’s “safer smoking room” by stating that “it protected crack users from violence, connected them with health care services, kept them away from public spaces and prevented the spread of disease from pipe-sharing.”

I get it, but it would be nice if all these DTES experts revealed how many people they have got off drugs. Shouldn’t that be the aim?

John Clench, Vancouver

 

 

The editorial pages editor is Gordon Clark, who can be reached at gclark@theprovince.com. Letters to the editor can be sent to provletters@theprovince.com.



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