Tag: London letters

Letters to the Editor: Feb. 26

Change priorities Regarding the article Shelter shakeup needs $20M (Feb. 2) about the lack of cash to improve the supports for homeless people. I am sure the homeless understand the situation and are prepared to spend a couple more years sleeping outside. However, the citizens in London West also have been presented with a problem. […]

Letters to the Editor: Feb. 25

Keep vax passport In her column Most of us still doing all we can to protect ourselves and others (Feb. 23) Jane Sims reports that 91 per cent of local residents older than 12 have had at least two doses of vaccine. Premier Doug Ford is cancelling the vaccine passport, presumably because of the whining […]

Letters to the Editor: Feb. 24

Blatant vote grab So Doug Ford is going to save me $120 a year by cancelling licence plate renewal fees. Whoopee. Whoa, wait a minute. That’s $1.1 billion less money going into government coffers. That money is needed to run the province. Does Ford have a fairy godmother that is going to provide that funding? […]

Letters to the Editor: Feb. 23

Think of others The truck convoy protest in Ottawa was, in part, an demand for freedom to decline COVID-19 vaccination without consequences. However, our society is tightly interconnected and exercising this right has implications for the rest of us. Unvaccinated individuals have a greater risk than an vaccinated person of hospitalization and intensive care unit […]

Letters to the Editor: Feb. 22

Case closed Could you please tell your writers to stop using the word “shuttered” when something is actually “closed”? Why not just say “closed”? There are literally no shutters involved. This is just as annoying as the hackneyed phrase “the perfect storm.” Catherine Fellner, London Emergencies Act necessary step Re: the letter Emergencies Act gross […]

Letters to the Editor: Feb. 19

Ford on wrong side Why is it everything Premier Doug Ford says about this pandemic is the opposite of what doctors and scientists are saying? Because he is a politician just trying to get re-elected, with no care for the health and wellbeing of Ontarians. This week, he announced “the world is done with COVID.” […]

Letters to the Editor: Feb. 18

Reframe argument Prioritizing pedestrians over cyclists or vice versa is the wrong argument to make. Prioritizing both over automobile travel is the way forward. A tiny slice of what we spend on building and maintaining auto infrastructure can make all pedestrians and cyclists happy. When you make pedestrians and cyclists happy, they don’t drive cars, […]

Letters to the Editor: Feb. 17

Still waiting for tax break at gas pumps Premier Doug Ford promised a rollback on the taxes on gas and maybe some price adjustment on natural gas, before the next election on June 2. If I recall correctly, he even said by March. Let’s see some action on this. About 50 cents of the price […]