Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The Elmwood Community Service Association and the community of Elmwood respectfully requests that the Municipal Council of Brockton grant our holiday wish and “Put the Elm back into Elmwood”.  

Dear Editor: I wish to express my support for Walkerton resident Bobbi Sharpe, who recently appeared before Brockton Council to raise concerns about the trapping of beavers in the Saugeen River.

To the editor: Like many in our community, I was extremely disappointed by BMO’s recent decision to close its local branches in Mildmay (where our family resides), and Walkerton.

Dear Editor: So the Ontario government is now selling a billion dollars in “nuclear expansion” bonds, and we’re supposed to believe this is smart planning. To me, it looks a whole lot more like a confidence game dressed up as an energy strategy.

Dear Editor: “The planning and management of drinking water sources should be undertaken on a watershed basis. Political boundaries should not be permitted to interfere with the watershed approach."

Dear Editor: There are two dates in Teeswater (South Bruce) that many residents will  remember.. 

Dear Editor: While most rural weeklies haven’t reported on it yet, Ontario has just taken a major step toward eliminating locally elected school trustees and replacing them with a single, centralized “Student and Family Support Office” in every school board.

Dear Editor: Imagine someone you love deeply, a spouse, a parent, a best friend, or a favourite aunt or uncle, facing the last few days or weeks of life...

Dear Editor, Back when the Walkerton tragedy made headlines worldwide, the moral was simple enough for a grade-school science fair: don’t let people who know nothing about water run the show.

Dear Editor: I’ve seen how the housing crisis has deeply affected our community. More and more people are being pushed into homelessness, and it feels like everyone is falling behind.

Dear Editor: Anita Jacobson and the Coalition to Repeal Bill 5 are right to sound the alarm about what’s been done to Ontario’s Endangered Species Act.

For those who like country music like I do, the headline will be recognized as the song title by singer Sara Evans who made this very famous, and although it does have a different meaning in the song, it is how I felt....

Dear Editor: The recent musings coming from the provincial government and their spreadsheet bean counters should be a wake-up call here in rural Ontario. But have you ever noticed how the “cult of efficiency” always looks really efficient on paper?

Dear Editor; Two words of the week – C-A-P-I-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N. A ten-dollar word meaning: “You got pushed, you got shoved, and instead of pushing back, you bent over and said, ‘Thank you, sir, may I have another?’”