Letters

Editor, Lots going on these days. Globally of course, and across Canada too with issues like job security, childcare, healthcare, affordable housing, gun ownership, government transparency, decentralizing energy, protecting a vulnerable environment. But right now here in Meaford, the special need that keeps me awake at night is Trans Canada Energy’s (TCE) open looped, Pumped Storage Project. It will change the...

Editor, Prediction: The next step our Deputy Mayor (DM) is going to take is a motion to remove the demand for Impact Assessment or Independent Studies from Meaford’s Willing Host resolution. Her action will free up TCE to do pretty much whatever it wants environmentally on the 4CDTC and in the Bay, from Meaford Council’s perspective. I like Meaford’s Deputy Mayor....

Dear Editor, I’d like to correct another error Save Georgian Bay repeats in your IAAC Review coverage (March 9) if I may. There are no Municipalities in Ontario that have voted to oppose the TCE pumped storage proposal in Meaford. Zero. Hasn’t happened. There’s no reason to believe any will either. Maybe Councils think they did. They didn’t. There may be Councils...

Editor, Your alertness in identifying the implications that follow from the recent ice jam on the Bighead River is commendable. As noted in the 3R Rant, a massive building and underground parking have been approved for construction on the floodplain directly behind the Meaford Library. The building is initially described as providing affordable apartment units and then changes to become...

Dear Editor, The news that Owen Sound had issued residents a boil-water advisory on March 14 because of turbidity in Georgian Bay should come as a wake-up call to Meaford, one of whose councillors lives in the affected area. Households using Owen Sound's water have been instructed to boil their water to remove the risk of contamination because the turbidity interfered...

Dear Editor, I saw from your IAAC coverage that Mr. Tom Buck of Save Georgian Bay has raised the cost of the Meaford Pumped Storage proposal again. I don’t think he gets to do that. It seems that every time a Director of Save Georgian Bay gets close to a microphone, the future cost of the proposal goes up by a billion...

Editor, Grey County Warden and Town of The Blue Mountains Mayor Andrea Matrosovs has remained almost entirely absent from, and silent in, discussions around a $19.7 million shortfall in estimates for a contentious town-wide infrastructure project. The shortfall represents about 80% of the Town’s 2026 tax levy. Only one member of council, Paula Hope, has publicly called out Mayor Matrosovs out...

Editor, I would like to begin by thanking Meaford’s Committee of Adjustment for the thorough preparation they did prior to the recent discussion regarding the proposed Minor Variance submitted by SkyDev. It was evident that members of the Committee had taken the time to understand what was being requested and to consider the broader implications the variance could have on the...

Editor, This past Saturday, I had separate conversations with two highly educated and well-travelled individuals, both originally from Poland but with no connection to each other. The first remarked that Canada—and Ontario in particular—were far from being democratic in policy and governance. The second, in a different conversation, argued that the actions of the Canadian government are perilously close to...

Dear Editor, We want to thank our neighbors, our community and the Imagine Meaford group that filled Council Hall on February 25th to oppose Sky Dev’s Minor Variance Application seeking an increase in height, that had a direct causal effect on the surface parking. The increase in height sought was to replace the underground parking with additional units amounting to...