Letters

Dear editor: A big thank you to Sandy, what a community minded person. Also to Karen, who came along and helped Sandy finish up. Thank you ladies for your time and energy. You are good people. We have a problem with a few dog owners who do not pick up after their dogs and dog owners that pick up after their...

Editor, I received a letter from the Municipality of Meaford, dated April 2. Some background to this event is needed. From my early teens, for more than twenty years I was employed in municipal road maintenance and construction. While my main career veered elsewhere, the connection to roads operations never completely ended. In the last few years, I've been increasingly alarmed at...

Editor, The Government of Canada is mandating all new cars manufactured in 2035 be electric. Presently there are 9.4 million cars operating in Ontario. I believe it would be a very conservative estimate to assume there will be 1 million electric cars (EVs) by 2035 in Ontario. There are already 270,000. Most of these cars will be charged overnight. A...

Editor, Did I miss the day that most of the provincial issues of affordability of food, shelter healthcare, and other basics needs of life are all pretty much solved? I’m so glad that Doug Ford has focused on the next major Ontario problem by bullying the LCBO into re-introducing paper bags. Articles about this ridiculous “initiative” seem to focus on what the...

Dear Editor, The province announced a $110 million investment to create new and expanded inter-professional primary care teams. Our MPP, Rick Byers, says our share is $1,695,000, which is less than 2% of the total. Mr. Byers said it will help connect “approximately 4,000 unattached patients in Durham, Markdale, Meaford, Owen Sound, Saugeen Shores and Wiarton.” Specifically, a new Indigenous...

Dear Editor, Thank you so much for including my previous letter in the Meaford Independent. As someone who cares about our shift to cleaner energy sources, I found the recent press release from the Western Ontario Wardens Caucus, featured in the March 14 edition of the Meaford Independent, quite intriguing. It talked about the Keeping Energy Costs Down Act, 2024, which...

Editor, I have my own rant and rave to share with you and the community. My rant is about how many people view and treat people who identify as two-spirited, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transexual, queer, intersex, asexual and other (2SLGBTQIA+). It breaks my heart that people do not listen and learn and see beyond misinformation and narrow stereotypes. It angers...

Dear Editor, There are many questions that need to be answered with the Pumped Storage proposal, but it seems that too many people don’t want to know the truth. If they got away from propaganda and seriously thought about it, they would save themselves a lot of worry. For instance, it defies logic that DND would allow civilians to work in...

Editor, Thank you to everyone, both School Board staff and concerned parents and community members for attending the March 21st information session at Macphail regarding the portable placement proposal and impact on the “Kindy Forest”. I did not grow up in this area, but I am no stranger to rural communities. That is one of the reasons I love living and...

Editor, Regarding your recent editorial about the councillors receiving little pay, perhaps “little” needs defining: When I was Reeve of Thornbury in 1977 and 1978, the pay was $1,000 per year, which equates to $4,723 in today’s dollars. Councillors received a bit less, the Mayor a little more. I doubt my old friend Ed Besworth made much more as Reeve of Meaford....