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Thoughts on Urban-Rural Issues

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Dear Mr. Vance, First, congrats on your rant this week (The 3Rs...Rants, Raves & Rumours, April 16, 2026 print issue) about the rural/urban schism (urban is a bit of a stretch). Living out near Bognor, we hear the moaning about how the library was a bad trade for the grocery store, and the ridicule about the proposed $2,000,000 toboggan hill, but...

Questions About DND Impact Assessment

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Dear Editor, The Department of National Defence (DND) is currently conducting an environmental effects determination for the relocation of military infrastructure at the Meaford Training Centre — infrastructure that would only need to be moved if TC Energy’s Pumped Storage Project (PSP) proceeds. At the same time, the PSP itself remains in the early planning phase of the federal Impact Assessment...

Reader Calls For Transparency Regarding Pumped Storage Proposal

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To the Editor, Recent coverage has rightly focused on what the public still does not know about TC Energy’s proposed pumped storage project. One omission remains central: despite years of development and $285 million in public funding from the province, no environmental studies, contamination assessments, engineering risk analyses, or updated cost estimates have been released. The Initial Project Description (IPD) is...

Reader Suggests Editor Suffers From TDS

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Dear Sir, I am 84 years old and have never written a letter to a newspaper - but your rant (The 3Rs...Rants, Raves & Rumours, April 2, 2026 print edition) inspired me to write. I have read your previous rants and it is obvious you hate President Trump. I have heard people talking about “TDS - Donald Trump Syndrome" - but...

Reader: What the Public Still Doesn’t Know About the Pumped Storage Proposal

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Dear Editor, Bruce Mason asserts that TC Energy’s pumped storage project is now “defined” and that previous municipal opposition was therefore based on a “fiction”. This misrepresents both the regulatory process and TC Energy’s own filings. An Initial Project Description (IPD) is not a finalized project design. Under the Impact Assessment Act, it is a preliminary document submitted precisely because critical...

Appreciation For Nurses

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Dear Editor, I am staying with my husband tonight in the nursing home. I have seen wonderful care being given for months, but now I see that it continues as much at night as day. They talk to him to explain what they are doing, even though he can not respond. The gentleness, knowledge, and caring are wonderful. I am...

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Fight Ford Protests Continue

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Dear Editor, In February, the first organized, Fight Ford (Protest Doug), demonstrations were held across Ontario. The initial 15 rallies gained attention as word spread, and this momentum resulted in 38 protests on March 28. One was held in Meaford. People have many concerns about the actions of our Provincial government and a boiling over point has been reached, which...
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Can We Trust the Information Being Advanced With Regards to TCE’s PSP

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Editor, This Initial Project Description (IPD) submitted by TC Energy is essentially a compilation of their research dating back to 2016. It is important for the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) to recognize that after a decade—despite TC Energy’s assertion that their engineering team is highly skilled—the company has produced a document exceeding 200 pages that fails to provide...
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Concern About SkyDev Development

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Editor, I attended the meeting of Committee of Adjustment on Wednesday Feb. 25, 2026 and heard the comments given by all. I have observed the enormous pile (mountain) of excavated soil and the expanding water (lake) in the centre of this property. It appears that Sky Dev are trying to avoid the problems which have become evident that insufficient and/or...
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Reader: What is the True Cost of Pumped Storage Project?

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To the Editor, As Meaford residents are asked to weigh in on TC Energy’s proposed Pumped Storage Project (PSP), one crucial question remains unanswered: What is the true cost of this project — and who is responsible for calculating the return on investment for taxpayers? TC Energy’s current estimate of $7+ billion is already outdated and under review, but even this...
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Meaford’s Special Need

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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...
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Predicting Deputy Mayor’s Next Move

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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....
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Smoke And Mirrors, Confusion, & Misplaced Anger

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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...
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Recent Ice Jam Flood Event Increases Concern About Proposed Condo Development

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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...
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Turbidity in Georgian Bay Leading to Boil Water Advisory in Owen Sound Should Be a Wake Up Call Says Reader

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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...
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Reader Shares Thoughts on Pumped Storage Proposal

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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...
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