Pack up your tents and move along, please

Bye, bye, Occupy. One reader is tired of the tents in Victoria

OK , I’ll say it, since no one else will. I’m getting tired of the tent city in Centennial Square.

You’ve made your point (I thinK!) – now go home.

P.M. Peterson

Victoria

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