Letters

Letter to the Editor Editor, the following letter has been sent to Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP, Larry Miller Larry, In the last year on at least two occasions you have revealed to your constituents that you are not a strong proponent of Canada's laws on religious freedom or our charter of rights and freedoms. Surely you know that religious freedoms and human rights are protections...

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, Recently I attended a citizen’s protest in Owen Sound against the passing of Bill C- 51, “An Act to enact the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act and the Secure Air Travel Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and to make related...

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, The members of the so-called Sydenham Independence Group seem to believe that there is a currently existing legal procedure called a Petition of Right that derives from the 1628 petition submitted by Parliament to Charles I. According to them, it seems that all that is necessary for Sydenham to secede from Meaford is that...

Letter to the Editor Editor, To all those who worked on "frozen " Collingwood Street today...Thursday, March 5th : I am sure our neighbours on Collingwood  Street will join us in saying ..."Well  Done and Many Thanks"  to each and every member of the team! Each and every member, whether Municipal or Private, worked in freezing temperatures from very early morning until after dark...

Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, With regards to your editorial dated Friday 6th March 2014, concerning the Meaford budget, I would like to make the following comments. 1. This new council did a 'good' job in producing a tax levy increase of 1.32%  which was down from the 2.8% that staff had originally proposed. If they had waited one day longer,...

Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, If you've heard about the plastic film recycling program in Meaford, that's good. Plastic bags and film are everywhere and can actually be sold by the municipality, thus reducing our property taxes, maybe. You do have to take your accumulated plastic in the the transfer station yourself though. The bad: Meaford charges interest on late payments...

Letter to the Editor Editor, Ironically, on the morning after everyone is to test their smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, our carbon monoxide detector sounded. Knowing that my husband had just changed the batteries, I opened some windows and called the Fire Department. They arrived quickly and set up in our lane-way. Entering the house they found high readings of carbon...

Letter to the Editor Editor, Kudos to Dave MacDougall for his brilliant letter ripping apart Harper and his government. (Letters to the Editor-Feb. 27). There was a time when I had at least a modicum of respect for conservatism, but this current pack of neo-liberal, anti-democratic werewolves puts real conservatism to shame. I have just read Michael Harris' book, Party of...

Letter to the Editor Editor, the following has been sent to Prime Minister Harper, MP Larry Miller, and Minister Peter MacKay: Steve, Larry, Peter,  You Cons have consistently refused to fund agencies and oversight committees that are designed to protect Canadians from rabid and reactive political policies!  You refused to let many agencies of government that protect Canadians, spend even the meagre budget...

Letter to the Editor Editor, The proposed major development that Mr. Toncic has proposed for the Meaford downtown is an excellent step in improving the potential of our economy and status as an Ontario town that cares about its heritage. In order for this to proceed the Municipality must apply its own approved bylaw for the Heritage Conservation District and issue a...