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Thank-you, Gordon McIntyre, on your story on how a bicyclist was billed $3,752 by the Insurance coverage Corp. of British Columbia after he was severely injured when hit by a automotive working a cease signal. The rationale he needed to pay was as a result of his bicycle was not an insured automobile, so he needed to pay for repairs to the automotive?
And he isn’t the one bicyclist billed for damages to automobiles when automotive drivers are at fault — and other people need bicycles as an alternative of automobiles for well being and environmental advantages. I didn’t notice that the B.C. authorities expects folks to have complete and legal responsibility bicycle insurance coverage. Who knew?
Hopefully, vacationers will probably be notified that if they’re on bicycles, and get hit by a automotive, they are often on the hook each bodily and financially.
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Stephen Wilson, Chilly Lake, Alberta
The place is the opposite aspect of the story?
What a slanted information merchandise. You haven’t spoken to different driver? Your headline begs a bit extra element: Cyclists and pedestrians largest loser? I consider the attorneys are the most important losers of no-fault insurance coverage. If it weren’t for his or her exorbitant charges and bleeding the system, we’d not have had no-fault introduced in in any respect.
I do hope you observe up and current the opposite aspect of the story, which a great investigative reporter ought to have the ability to get hold of.
Jim Card, Qualicum Seashore
Alzheimer’s fears exacerbated by household physician scarcity
Re: MaryLou Harrigan: Fifty-six per cent of Canadians are involved about growing Alzheimer’s
This opinion article missed a vital level as to why 56 per cent of individuals worry getting Alzheimer’s. That being so many people can’t even get a physician for our commonplace diseases not to mention for this life-threatening illness? So many people with out medical doctors immediately are pressured to take care of the inconsistency of receiving care solely from clinics or worse, emergency wards — not essentially the identical physician twice. Does the federal government actually assume that I’m going to the emergency room and wait 5 to 6 or extra hours in a hallway chair to “talk about” my self-diagnosed issues relating to any sort of psychological dementia. Yeah, and it’s going to get 10 instances worse within the close to future by the seems of the inaction by authorities.
And, keep in mind, we’re advised we’ve the very best system within the free world? Are we actually so naive as to consider that?
Invoice Davis, New Westminster
