Letters

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...

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...

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...

Dear Editor, I am wondering about the benefit of the roadside tributes when someone is killed. Driving by one on Hwy 26, I thought, “Oh look! They changed the sunflowers for roses.” That only takes 10 seconds to notice, have it register and comment, but that is 10 seconds to take your eyes off the road. That is just long...

Editor, As it was written and with your editorial note, I was perplexed about giving thumbs up or down on the issue that Mr Chambers brought up. I think you both may be on the wrong track. You and he are debating on the average and median housing price in our area. In a previous editorial (about gender and sexual...

Editor, TCE (our Ontario Pumped Storage bedmates) was just this week sued by the BC government (that’s the provincial government of British Columbia) for environmental non-compliance. TCE’s answer? Not us, but a company we contracted. What does that mean, 'it wasn’t us'? Does a surgeon not take responsibility for her assistants in the operating theatre? But let’s bring this back home...

Editor, The affordability crisis has been 20 years in the making and is the result of poor policy at the federal and provincial levels of government, and the Bank of Canada. It was wonderful that home prices were rising 20% annually, but deep down we all knew that it was unsustainable and with the euphoria wearing off and reality setting in,...

Dear Sir, You often comment on the difficult job of any member of council, but the furor over a recent comment by the mayor taking up most of a combined full page of the paper (letter, 3Rs, Rants, Raves & Rumours, mayor's apology) was a pretty good example of same. As well, possibly, another good demonstration as to why many...