Thursday, January 23, 2025

Letters

Florist Frustrations

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...

Concern About Orchard Sprays

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...

Reader Challenges Wording of TC Energy Letter

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...

Thoughts on Short Term Accommodations & Affordable Housing

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...

Reader Appreciates Editorial About Rallies Against Schools Teaching Gender & Sexual Diversity

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...

Reader Frustrated About GBHS Re-branding

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...

TC Energy Responds to Recent Letter to the Editor

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...

Thoughts on Recent Rallies & Counter Protests

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...

Re-branding of GBHS Seen as Wasteful

Editor, The letter below was sent to the recently re-branded Grey Bruce Health Services, now Brightshores Health System. Dear Sir, Re-branding you call it, or I say semantics, but I prefer to be cared for by a Health Service than a System. Who came up with the ridiculous name? Most of your service area is nowhere near a shore, bright or otherwise...

Reader Opposed to Municipality Becoming Involved in Affordable Housing

Editor, I for one am vigorously opposed to the idea that our municipality would become involved in any way with the construction of affordable homes in this area. Housing should not be undertaken by municipalities but by provinces and federal governments. For our municipality to become involved would require the creation of yet another bureaucracy within a bureaucracy in order...