Global media regularly brings us news about catastrophes, but the ones that truly grab our attention are the ones that might affect us the most.

I am writing in response to the 鈥減olitics鈥� item in the Comox Valley Record on March 9: Time to enrich poverty debate in British Columbia, by Tom Fletcher, legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Thank you for your article on Ronna-Rae Leonard鈥檚 selection as candidate for the House of Commons, representing Vancouver Island North.

In response to Friday鈥檚 letter to the editor from Yvonne Kafka: Does anyone check their sources to see if a person is actually credible before publishing their slanders of a well-respected professional human being? Just for fun, we Googled the name Yvonne Kafka, and came up with this doozy 鈥�

Child poverty in West Vancouver? In that affluent municipality?

The Record鈥檚 very sensible, compassionate and well-considered editorial of March 4, Only Pharmacy in Town, and Dolly Smith鈥檚 informative letter, Club Showing Compassion, on the same page, were followed March 9 by an Under the Glacier cartoon which both trivialized the issue of medical marijuana and demeaned those in need of it.

Dear editor, Do the taxpayers of the Comox Valley really want the regional district to erect a $2.9-million state-of-the-art homeless shelter right at the entrance to our coveted downtown business district? Do those same taxpayers realize that this structure will net a grand total of 10 additional beds, which will provide emergency housing for street people?

Unanimous votes on important issues are rare among municipal governments in the Comox Valley. This isn鈥檛 necessarily a bad thing 鈥� in their wisdom, voters have elected people who contribute a diversity of experience and philosophy that helps to ensure a wide range of Comox Valley perspectives will be represented.