Letters

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, April 18, the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC) will be officially launching their province-wide campaign to stop the privatization of public hospitals to for-profit private clinics and hospitals. The OHC is a non partisan, non-profit organization, that has successfully engaged in mass scale, on-the-ground community organizing, to protect publicly funded health care, for over 40 years. The newly...

Dear Editor, In response to the Airbnb letter, I want to totally agree. However sad this is, I find no interest in our local government taking action at all. I have contacted our municipal politicians and staff over an Airbnb on my street. The owner does not live here, owns several properties and manages this business conglomerate out of Toronto. If...

Dear Editor, As 18-year residents of Annan, we understand the important role tourism plays in our county. Sadly, these past several weeks we have experienced turmoil in our neighbourhood surrounding a new Airbnb establishment. As the neighbouring resident, we wish to express our extreme opposition to this new tourist establishment. Most of our neighbours have signed a petition opposing this Airbnb....

Editor, In Mr. Schram's March 30th letter, he asks the rhetorical question as to how it could ever be that another 4 - 14 pumped storage facilities be built around the Great Lakes - as if it were obvious this could not be, and then claims hydrogen power is the only solution. I am no expert so I speak without authority....

Dear Editor, I came across an Opinion column in the Globe and Mail this week written by someone who was one of my MBA school profs. I thought to myself, “Cool. I wonder what Professor Borins has been up to since - seriously? – really? - Pierre Trudeau was PM then? Wow.” Undeterred, I dove right in. Oh my. Oh no. No!...

Editor, I'm just reading Ontario Pumped Storage: Just the facts sheet. (Number 6) They seem proud of the 'fact' that the storage facility they intend to dig will create 1000 MW of energy and saying Ontario may need another 5000 to 15000 MW by 2035. Where would they build between 4 and 14 more Pumped storage facilities around the Great...

Editor, I attended the Municipal Council meeting vote on TCE on February 27 at the Meaford Hall. It was a lively, prolonged, and predictable event. Eleven spoke out against. Five spoke out in favour. It was an unfair representation. The five in favour included a high-level delegation representing TCE, Bruce Power, and the Nuclear Innovation Institute (TCE owns 49% of Bruce Power)....

Editor, Based on the interesting and positive letter from Bruce Mason last week, rather than drive to Ludington, I did a Google Earth of the project, which has been running without a hitch since 1973 and it is impressive. With 6 turbines available, it can deliver enough power for 1.4 million homes. Not only that, but they work alongside wildlife authorities...

Editor, In 1942, the Canadian government expropriated 17,350 acres of land in Grey County in north Sydenham and St. Vincent townships to support democracy in Canada and the world during World War II. Farmers, fruit growers, and fishermen were forced off their lands only to find that the reimbursement was insufficient to replace their losses. This was their sacrifice to support...

Editor, Don’t citizens have a say? Apparently not. TCE and Provincial officials are proving that they, not local citizens, rule in Meaford. Democracy is when citizens have a say, and their majority will is reflected in decisions affecting them. Council has done what TCE demanded. Not democracy! I join many, many people of Meaford who are saddened and disappointed by council’s...