Letters to the Sun: Readers thank columnist Daphne Bramham

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Thanks Daphne Bramham on your power, your ardour, your advocacy on behalf of those that had no voice

Revealed Jul 31, 2023  •  Final up to date 10 hours in the past  •  4 minute learn

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It all the time comes as a shock when a favorite columnist retires. It isn’t one thing one thinks about till it occurs.

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Daphne, thanks on your power, your ardour, your advocacy on behalf of those that had no voice.

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Thanks for bringing the tough tales to gentle.

I’ll miss your columns, however after 46 years you will have definitely earned the appropriate to get pleasure from retirement. Congratulations on an excellent profession.

Marion Smith, Richmond 

Wishing Daphne Bramham properly 

One other loss for us readers. We thanks for all of your reporting and want you nothing however the most effective for the subsequent chapter of your life.

Caroline and Richard Duncan, North Vancouver

A brave columnist

To The Vancouver Solar: Thanks on your decades-long help of Ms. Bramham’s fierce and brave investigations and reporting. I’ll actually miss her columns. To Ms. Bramham: Dream grandly on this new chapter of your life and pursue these desires.

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Eva Schmieg, Richmond 

Windfall Well being Care misaligned with tax-paying public 

Re: Ending Catholic well being care over euthanasia could be tragic for B.C.

Brian Fowl’s competition that permitting medical help in dying (MAID) in Catholic hospitals may finish Catholic well being care is overblown and fully misses the purpose about pressured transfers. Hospital transfers for many medical procedures are usually completed for sufferers who require specialised tools, or for surgeons to carry out operations which aren’t accessible in each hospital. A medically assisted demise can, and has been, carried out wherever, anytime by a physician or nurse practitioner who is aware of the best way to administer a needle. These sufferers close to end-of-life are “struggling intolerably” (one of many required medical standards to qualify). Why add to their distress and struggling when it’s simply prevented?

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Additionally, below federal MAID laws, no medical practitioner is obligated to take part if they’ve a conscientious objection. They’re already protected. A publicly funded constructing has no conscience. What concerning the many docs, nurses and social staff at St. Paul’s who help MAID? There are various, however they’re prevented from collaborating within the course of as a result of institutional spiritual obstruction of Windfall Well being Care.

A June 2023 Ipsos ballot commissioned by Dying With Dignity Canada discovered that 75 per cent of British Columbians say that “public health-care amenities ought to present the total vary of health-care providers, together with MAID, if they’ve the correct tools and workers to take action.” This consists of 73 per cent of Catholics. The board of Windfall Well being is totally misaligned with the tax-paying public.

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Alex Muir, North Vancouver 

Re: Rich Ambleside Village’s deterioration is puzzling

One other glorious column by Douglas Todd (July 29). At the least Ambleside has a submit workplace — two in reality, I’ve had a number of letters printed on this scorching subject of none in Dundarave — not so scorching now that submit workplaces aren’t as vital.

Whereas Dundarave is smaller, it appears slightly extra “alive” than Ambleside, with venues such because the Crimson Lion Pub, and a few beautiful reward outlets (no foreign money change ones that I’ve observed not too long ago). However the upcoming adjustments there, to presumably make it extra upbeat like Edgemont Village, have many native residents’ knickers in a twist (not mine).

Personally, it’s my purpose to not go to Park Royal, on both facet, and I imagine that many different Ambleside and Dundarave residents would agree.

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Supporting native enterprise is so vital. I like IGA and the wine retailer virtually subsequent door. I agree with Douglas Todd — the “lacking center” is lacking. It’s unhappy that so many native residents don’t need change.

Jean Lawrence, West Vancouver 

Re: Choose guidelines in opposition to Mayne Island tennis membership’s ‘self-serving’ try to exclude pickleballers 

Thanks on your pretty balanced article on this subject. I do know the story properly, and it was unhappy to see issues come to this. On the finish of the day, the tennis courts had been expropriated from the tennis affiliation by a brand new “self-serving” group centre board. The tennis courts had been constructed and maintained by the tennis affiliation for years, with none funds from the group centre. As an alternative of fundraising and constructing their very own pickleball courts, some individuals determined it was their proper to ignore a previous settlement and partially take over tennis courts that didn’t belong to them with out compensation. Simply because a choose agreed, it doesn’t make it honest or proper.

Levi Higgs, Vancouver

Vancouver Canadians a uncommon sports activities gem 

Final week, there was an article within the sports activities part about Devonte Brown, a Vancouver Canadians standout. About time, says I. At Wednesday’s recreation there have been 4,500 in attendance, all loyal followers, for an important win by “our” crew. I believe it’s well past time for extra articles, extra publicity for one of many uncommon sports activities gems in our metropolis.

Roger Burr, Burnaby

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