Letters

Dear Editor, I would like to provide a response to Charles Killin’s letter to the editor on October 19, 2023, with the intent of clarifying the role of the Ontario Pumped Storage Project and why it will help Ontario transition to an emissions-free electricity system. Over the coming years, Ontario’s electricity demand is expected to increase. We also know that the...

Dear Editor, I saw the demonstration about trans kids in school. It reminded me of my aunt, who still had scars about glasses when she died at 82. The kids used to cruelly yell at her, “Boys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses.” It stuck. We need to call for protection for trans kids, but what about kids too...

Editor, Two thumbs down to an out of town florist who supposedly operates out of Owen Sound delivering in Meaford. One of our family members lost their mother recently and due to a delayed service decided to send some flowers to brighten her day. Now all this happened on a weekend when searching for a local florist to deliver some pretty...

Mr. Editor, A recent fire raised concerns about chemicals entering our water system and the Municipality took rapid and appropriate action. I understand that the investors planting the new and impressive apple orchards in our community have requested permission to place a pumping station on one of our shoreline parks to provide water for an irrigation system. The new orchards appear to...

Editor, I take issue with some of the wording in the recent letter submitted by John Mikkelsen of TC Energy (TC Energy Responds to Recent Letter to the Editor, October 14). In the letter, Mikkelsen says, “The Ontario Pumped Storage Project will contribute considerably to helping clean the province of greenhouse gas emissions as it will produce 1,000 megawatts of...

Dear Editor, A soliloquy, if I may, on the matter of short term accommodation in Meaford. Housing and in particular housing affordability has been a very hot topic in local discussion of recent weeks. Questions around how to house those that work in vital roles in our community that are falling further and further from the affordability threshold in Grey County...

Dear Mr. Vance, I have just read your editorial on the Rallies Against Schools Teaching Students About Gender & Sexual Diversity. There has been so much hatred and scare tactics spread on this subject that I found your story to be very thought provoking. You used humour and rational examples to convey your facts. I hope that people will share this story...

Editor, I noticed a flag on the side of the Meaford Hospital just this past week. I knew nothing about renaming but finally found a brief item about it online. The name of Grey Bruce Health Services has changed to 'Brightshores Health System'. Whatever for? Where is 'Brightshores'? Is this master stroke of corp-speak brilliance supposed to cure all the problems that...

Dear Editor, I would like to clarify some misconceptions that were stated in Caryn Colman’s recent letter to the editor on October 5, 2023. TC Energy has not been sued by B.C.’s provincial government. On September 21, 2023, the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) announced two administrative actions on the Coastal GasLink Project - the first relating to erosion and sediment...

Dear Editor, This is regarding the article Rallies Against Schools Teaching Students About Gender & Sexual Diversity Met With Counter-Protests you've published on Sep 28, 2023. It was interesting to learn that this division on education issue seems to have come to Meaford as well. Having experience working as a psychologist in my past working life, I can't help but...