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Students behaving
Regarding the article Tensions flare over Western University protest camp ‘fortification’ (June 28).
I have to call out the university administration’s claims about the conduct of the participants of the pro-Palestinian encampment. I pass this encampment daily and I have witnessed no troubling or aggressive behaviour. Participants are pleasant, and happy to chat respectfully about their concerns.
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Western students have been about as unruly as a church choir. Frankly, their principled stance to right injustice is admirable, while Western’s inaction on problematic investments is perplexing to me.
Nowadays, people like to say our young people are easily offended snowflakes, but it seems it is our university administrators who need to grow a thicker skin.
Arzie Chant, London
Not the pandemic
Regarding the letter to the editor from Carol Hardy, Choose carefully (June 29).
I’m curious if Hardy actually reads the newspaper to which she sent this letter.
It has reported Liberal scandals too numerous to mention, record deficits, money wasted on failed programs and a prime minister who has made this country a laughingstock.
This is the person you want to represent Canada on the world stage?
The fact Hardy thinks most of our problems are a result of the pandemic is laughable. The U.S. was hit harder than Canada during the pandemic, but their current GDP makes us look like laggards.
The Liberals have few accomplishments on which to hang their hats on they will try to paint the Conservatives as the party of rack and ruin. Choose carefully, indeed.
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Steve Matthews, London
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Welcome positivity
Carol Hardy suggests we consider the accomplishments of our minority government.
Our prime minister speaks well and has gained some respect on the world stage. It is refreshing to read a positive letter.
Donald Sephton, Hamilton
Been a rough ride
Canadians suffered the pandemic, then inflation, food costs, interest rates, home costs and mortgage rates rose along with taxes and our national debt.
We have been chastised for not meeting NATO’s two per cent military spending guideline, while our military lacks equipment and esprit de corps. The federal Liberals’ lack of transparency on Chinese election interference and names of MPs accused of aiding foreign powers makes Canadians ask what’s happened to our democracy.
Peter J. Middlemore Sr., Windsor
No enforcement
Re: Sharlene Tyndall’s letter Cut the grass (June 28).
We have the same problem in our neighbourhood.
The problem is residents of these properties are tenants and the landlord is nowhere to be found. Also, bylaw officers have been contacted several times about grass not cut and garbage left on front lawns for days and they have yet to show up.
Our neighbourhood is being turned into a slum. It’s disgusting.
Thomas Allen, London
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