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Respect taxpayer
I’m a shift worker and I had to put up with a ridiculous amount of noise pollution from Western University campus after midnight last week.
Is there anyone in city hall who has the smallest amount of respect for the taxpayers of this city?
Where is the consideration for local residents? I am so angry with the state of this city.
Mike Vanderveken, London
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Wide impact
Western University has been issued a noise permit until midnight and 1 a.m. on selected days during September. We live 3.5 km away and concerts rattled our windows two nights last week until after 1 a.m.
It has been heard as far away as Adelaide Street and Sunningdale Road.
Karen Eakins, London
Clean up, move on
Who is responsible for allowing noxious weeds in the future planters along the Wellington Road construction site to grow a metre or more high?
Why should the contractor be allowed to start moving north on Wellington Road when they have not cleaned up the original site of road cones, weeds and construction debris?
Ron Barnes, London
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The message for a kindergarten pupil riding a school bus for the first time is: You don’t need a seat belt on a school bus.
This young person must unlearn the basic fundamental truth they have known and understood all their lives.
Why don’t I need a seat belt on the school bus?
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Liz Stephens, Exeter
Tip hotel cleaners
Servers in restaurants are tipped approximately 20 per cent of the pre-tax bill.
I think the person who cleans the toilet, sink, bathroom, and the rest of your hotel room and replaces all the towels and sheets puts in at least as much effort as the server in a restaurant.
I recently learned few clients of high-end hotels, that cost $250 to $500 a night, leave a tip for the cleaning person. Using the same scale as the server (20 per cent), the tip would be significant. Maybe that is too much? However, leaving $20 or even $10, especially for multiple-night stays, does not seem out of line for this kind of physically demanding and low-paying job.
Consider leaving a reasonable gratuity the next time you are packing up to leave your hotel room.
Timothy Kwiatkowski, London
Pay them better
Four years of university could get you a teaching job where you work 198 days a year (less sick days), straight days and no shifts. Meanwhile, the nursing graduate can work 245 days a year, shift work while paying for their own parking with less money and substantially inferior benefits and deal with disease, death, continuous complaining and forced overtime and on-call times.
Raise nurses’ wages and quit freezing their salaries.
Howard Hare, Tillsonburg
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