Letters to the Editor: August 23, 2024

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No recourse

Regarding the article LHSC chops $2.3M in salaries, plans to cut half top brass (Aug. 21).

It’s appalling how the senior management team was allowed to balloon executive ranks. Why would there need to be a corporate administration executive paid nearly $500,000 annually when there was a CEO being paid well over $800,000? Who allowed this to happen?

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Is there no way to sue former leadership or the board of directors for gross mismanagement of publicly funded hospital services? Instead, the individuals all disappear, likely with a large severance, and are never held to account for their actions.

While I applaud the actions interim chief executive David Musyj has started to take, it’s unconscionable that so much money was directed at senior executives when it is so desperately needed for front-line staff who deal every day with staffing shortages and increased patient loads as they do their best to serve our community. They, and we, deserve better.

JG Wren, London

Stop the spin

Glen Pearson calling his column, Unlocking a spirit of hope in politics (Aug. 17), nonpartisan is more than a little suspect.

The biggest example: “Kamala Harris is a breath of fresh air.” If you buy that, you would also buy fresh, day-old bread.

And to say she will bring a spirit of hope to an America sliding into despondency is to ignore the fact she is in power and causing this despondency.

It’s important to point out, when she lists the items she will attack on Day 1, remember Day 1 for her actually was 3 1/2 years ago. During that time, what has she accomplished?

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She supported cancelling the XL Pipeline, defunding police and supports men in women’s sports.

To work in her campaign, you must have all your COVID vaccines.

True non-partisanship is when you list the good and bad, not simply hype the spin.

Al Gretzky, London

Wrong fix

I can’t believe what I hear from the civic works committee for a design update to Hamilton Road between Adelaide Street and Highbury Avenue during the development of the mobility master plan that would include two traffic lanes and a centre left-turn lane.

This idea would never work. I grew up just off it. I walked it, triked and biked it, and drove it all my life. The problem is not bicycles, but rather the speed and manner of vehicle driving.

I have lived on Hamilton Road for many years and I know it requires two lanes of parking all the way with two lanes of traffic.

It is really not that busy, just driven wildly.

As for the two unfortunate cyclists who lost their lives – one at 2 a.m. in the dark and the other crossing all four lanes – the road has two blocks of parking, then two blocks of none, then it alternates.

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It drives people crazy.

James Harris, London

Enforce rules

I was under the impression it is against the law to have the vehicle windows tinted to the point they conceal the driver’s face, yet I see more and more vehicles with windows tinted to the point it is impossible to see the driver.

Why are police not patrolling our streets, not only looking for speeders, but also to ticket drivers with tinted windows or licence plates that can’t be read.

These drivers with tinted windows cannot be seen if they’re using a cellphone. Why do we not have more officers patrolling the streets? What are our tax dollars paying for?

Genevieve Grech, London

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