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Priorities off
Doug Ford seems absolutely obsessed with alcohol. Remember “buck a beer?”
He and his government want to ensure Ontarians can obtain it almost anywhere, any time. He claims, finally, we will all be treated like “adults.”
How did this ever become a priority?
Doug, have you considered making our faltering health-care system your government’s top priority instead of focusing on one of the prime contributors to burgeoning health-care costs, burnt-out employees and increased human misery?
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In my opinion, making alcohol readily available in corner stores will lead to underage drinking and all its accompanying social and human problems.
We need a major shift in political thinking and priorities.
Derek J. Hardy, London
Add an island
Since, after hurricane Beryl many Caribbean islands are looking for help, why not make one or more of them part of Canada? It would mean CPP and old age security for 45,000 Turks and Caicos residents, a drop in the bucket for Canada which takes in hundreds of thousands of refugees without language skills, money and housing. So adding only 45,000 people with education, jobs, money and islands to Canada would create a reverse migration of older Canadians moving south.
Canadians spend billions on vacations to southern destinations, but Cuba is going Russian again, Mexico is dangerous and getting worse, Haiti is a no-go.
Canadians want a chance to go somewhere more than 212 days a year and not lose pensions and medical care.
Wayne Robertson, Chatham
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Learn history
Do you know where your grandparents came from? If you are lucky and they are still living, you should ask them.
We are all here because someone in our family decided Canada was a better place for opportunity than where they were born. There were many reasons including, war, oppression, poverty.
I would like to see my culture displayed more often than it is, but if I don’t care, then it’s my own fault.
Everyone has the same right to promote our individual cultures, don’t we?
Maybe we need to be a little less complacent and support the culture of the people who made us.
Carol Hardy, London
Rules won’t help
Regarding the article Lower speed limits eyed for major roads near schools (July 16),
London’s solution to everything is to slow things down by adding traffic lights at every little corner, lowering speed limits, adding speed bumps. I’m a cautious driver, but there are too many people in too much of a hurry to get where they’re going. And they live in a bubble and don’t care what happens to others.
All the speed limit and other changes in the world won’t alter that. Unfortunately, it’s the culture in which we live.
H. Orr, London
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