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Find a way
The federal housing money includes funds for modular housing and land acquisition. If we could pry the $25 million donated to end homelessness from the mayor’s fist, we could have had hundreds perhaps thousands of modular homes built by now.
What land?
Expropriating property of landlords who are behind in their taxes. City hall had no problem expropriating a senior’s beloved home at Horton Street and Wharncliffe Road, which has sat empty for years.
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We need problem-solvers at city hall, no navel-gazers.
Beth McCracken, London
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Not worthy ally
In his letter Time to quit NATO (Nov. 8) Joseph Alexander claims China is the new superpower. Is he actually serious?
For starters, their navy consists primarily of corvettes, which are not capable of sailing beyond the South China Sea. Their at-sea refueling is inadequate to supply any part of this fleet. Their remaining fleet consists of soviet era cast-offs and other archaic junk. We now know just how good the Russian fleet is in the Black Sea. For its part, the vaunted Peoples Liberation Army hasn’t enough airlift capacity to leave Asia.
In the past several decades China has squandered nearly $1 trillion on the Silk Road initiative and ill conceived real estate developments at home. Any other country would have been bankrupted many times over by now. And they don’t learn. Their industries overproduce products such as EVs which they try to dump worldwide to recoup their losses. Their agriculture might be the worst joke. Chinese farmland has been depleted from rice harvesting. Without huge imports of Russian potash by ship, they would starve.
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China has the oldest demography in world history. There are about as many pensioners as workers. They lied about their population, and may have 100 million fewer children and adolescents than first reported. President Xi Jinping has murdered everyone near him who tell him anything he does not want to hear. These are not the attributes of a good military ally.
David Nielsen, London
Reason to worry
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to consider the United States morally bankrupt. I don’t consider president-elect Donald Trump morally bankrupt as he has never displayed any morals to start with. But how else can you explain how a country can elect a rapist, liar, six-time bankrupt, philanderer who reveres brutal dictators above his own people?
I fear the U.S. is becoming an isolationist regime that can only be characterized as an autocracy. There will be little or no desire to give consideration to the rest of the world, specifically NATO or Ukraine. The latter of which could result in another world war into which the U.S. ultimately will be dragged at greater cost than if it responded earlier.
Sound familiar? It should. The same happened in two other world wars.
I fear for my children and grandchildren. Lest we forget.
Dennis Lee, Komoka
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