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Letters to the Editor


LETTER: Local Green Party official wants electoral reform for Christmas

LETTER: Local Green Party official wants electoral reform for Christmas

'Proportional representation is a present that would keep on giving, creating a fairer and more inclusive democracy where every vote matters,' writer says
LETTER: Canada Post should be deemed an 'essential service'

LETTER: Canada Post should be deemed an 'essential service'

'A Canadian Postal Service is necessary and instead of seeing $3 billion as deficit or loss, we should see it as the cost of running a non-profit essential service,' says letter writer
LETTER: More funding needed to support kids with autism

LETTER: More funding needed to support kids with autism

Letter writer details years of struggles to get son care he needs
LETTER: Ex postal worker claims wages, dues 'stolen' in strike

LETTER: Ex postal worker claims wages, dues 'stolen' in strike

'Workers have one power against corporations and governments: the right to remove their labour. Millions have been spent in vain,' says former postal worker
LETTER: Reader's take on homelessness legislation 'laughable'

LETTER: Reader's take on homelessness legislation 'laughable'

'Doug Ford makes enough gaffes in his day that you really do not have to post misinformation to make him look bad,' says letter writer
LETTER: Fining people for being homeless is 'laughable'

LETTER: Fining people for being homeless is 'laughable'

'These people can be our fathers, mothers, sister, brothers, uncle, aunts. who are human beings with major issues that need to be addressed,' says letter writer
LETTER: Frustrated with politics, citizen votes against voting

LETTER: Frustrated with politics, citizen votes against voting

'Writing to elected politicians and governments is, and has been, a total waste of my time for the past 40 odd years,' says letter writer
LETTER: Consider non-permanent residents in immigration stats

LETTER: Consider non-permanent residents in immigration stats

A century ago, 'we had more immigrants proportionally, but also far fewer barriers to building housing for them,' says letter writer
LETTER: Downtown shopping an experience Amazon can't provide

LETTER: Downtown shopping an experience Amazon can't provide

'You will not find better customer service,' letter writer says after shopping in downtown Orillia
LETTER: Shared services — not annexation — would be 'win-win'

LETTER: Shared services — not annexation — would be 'win-win'

'Cross-border service sharing of water and wastewater between Barrie and Oro-Medonte would be financially rewarding to the city,' says township resident