Category: Letters
Letters to the Editor: October 24, 2024
Don’t stop trying Amsterdam, in the 1970s, was a car-dominant grid-locked city much like Toronto is and much like where London is headed. The notoriously inventive and cost-conscious Dutch retrofitted many of their cities in order to make them more efficient, less costly, and more habitable. To be fair, they did so through numerous urban […]
LETTER: NWMO misrepresents the safety profile of DGRs
I am writing about the Deep Geological Registry (DGR) proposed for Teeswater by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) as a way of managing all of Canada’s high-energy nuclear waste. I can no longer remain silent as I have witnessed the reckless way the NWMO has misinformed the public and municipal leaders on the real […]
Letters to the Editor: October 23, 2024
Londoners at fault In her letter to the editor, We need answers on transportation (Oct. 17), Beth McCracken gives a good, detailed description of London’s poor transportation planning. There is another culprit in London’s problems: Londoners themselves. This city contains a sizable population that rejects any initiative that might get in the way of their […]
Reader to Reader: October 19, 2024
Bazaar season begins soon in London and area
Letters to the Editor: October 19, 2024
Stop cutting the ‘ounce of prevention’
Letters to the Editor: October 18, 2024
Push to defund CBC pure politics
LETTER: Putting pencil to paper on proposed DGR
Teeswater in South Bruce is in the running for the high-level nuclear waste burial site for all of Canada. Our council has already signed the hosting agreement and the big prize will be $418 million over 138 years, if South Bruce residents and council agree to accept this waste for short-term population growth and job […]
Letters to the Editor: October 17, 2024
We needs answers on transportation
LETTER: Too much power for NWMO in DGR agreement
The DGR (deep geological repository) hosting agreement puts the NWMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization) in charge of South Bruce’s future. Consider this scenario. You are a farmer and have leased, in perpetuity, a portion of your acreage to a company that gets to do whatever it wants, for as long as it wants, on a […]