Letters

Editor, I read with interest your story on the upcoming changes to our recycling system. It appears that the Ontario government has given up trying to figure out how to handle recycling and reduce over-packaging, and in a move which reeks of politics is shifting responsibility to producers. This makes all levels of government look good superficially because municipalities will...

Dear Editor, I finally went to see what the Thursday Pumped Storage Community Chat was about, and was delighted. They had a power point presentation that showed the answers to all the questions I had. Once I found out where exactly the pond will go, I went up to take a look and was surprised again to see that even the...

Dear Editor, I have been thinking about our healthcare system since reading the article from the Grey Bruce Health Coalition and the funding announcement for Long Term Care (LTC) which alluded to LTC admitting patients from acute care to Long Term Care as Alternate Level of Care (ALC) as well as funding for needed equipment. Recently our family has been...

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, 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...