Letters

Dear editor, In a previous letter (Aug 7, 2025), I wrote that the Meaford military training base was highly contaminated. The worst area is called the ‘impact zone’. I’ve been told that it is extremely dangerous because of high concentrations of white phosphorus, which when touched would burn the skin severely. In this letter, I’d like to propose how this...

Editor, Hoekstra, Vance, Trump don’t like Canada. Before you get into this, I want you to know that I have no issues with the American voters, especially those who were hoodwinked by Trump’s populist rhetoric to vote for him. We are all victims of the Trump administration. As a dual Canadian/US citizen, I am embarrassed. I write this to vent some of...

Editor, Could you please pass along something to Mr. Everitt and council that came up at the latest PSAC. Shawn Everitt is evidently taking a trip (with TCE?) to the Ludington Pumped Storage project: Besides, is he an engineer? I am not aware that he posses (sic) any special knowledge with regards to energy storage. I have outlined for 4 years the...

Letter to the Editor, At the November 13, 2025 Pumped Storage Advisory Committee meeting our newly appointed CAO Shawn Everitt announced that he and a group of Meaford councillors will be touring the PSP project in Ludington, Michigan sometime this month. Ironically, 7 years minus 2 days after this project was introduce(d) to the former Mayor in 2018 (Freedom of...

Dear Editor, So, Meaford Councillors will visit Ludington, Mich., to see the pumped storage plant there that was touted as the model for TC Energy's proposed $7 billion plant in Meaford. They should have done so before giving carte blanche to the proposal in February 2023, a decision taken as though they had no interest in due diligence on behalf of...

Dear Editor, I suspect the Pumped Storage Advisory Committee convincing Meaford Council to pursue baseline water testing on properties that have nothing to do with the TCE Pumped Storage Proposal won’t have quite the effect they were hoping for. The image of someone pointing both barrels at their own feet and pulling the trigger comes to mind. In business or academia, anyone...

Editor, With all the talk about future energy shortages in Canada I find it interesting that TC Energy has applied to export electricity to the United States. In their application dated 8 August 2025 and revised 4 November 2025 to the Canada Energy Regulator that TC Energy wants to get authorization to export up to 5,000,000 MWh of firm energy annually...

Editor, I am writing to express my deep concern regarding Premier Doug Ford’s ongoing approach to Indigenous communities in relation to the Ring of Fire mining development in northern Ontario. The rhetoric and the advertising blitz from the Premier’s office suggest a troubling pattern of dismissiveness—if not outright bullying—toward Indigenous groups who have legitimate concerns over their lands, rights, and...

Editor, This letter is in full support of the October 16 letter to the editor from Jim Molineux. I read Jim's letter with both a sense of disbelief and optimism. I thought the development behind the library, aka 5+ Story Floodplain Condominiums (5 SFC) had faded away and become yet another non-starter. That was my optimism. The disbelief is the proposal...

Dear Editor, Perhaps some are unaware of what is happening in Clearview Township, a small farming community northwest of Toronto. It was always called the Friendly Town of Stayner. Now it seems, on the face of it, the entire community has been blind-sided by the Minister and Department of National Defence (DND). Even the elected officials were unaware of what...