Letters to the Editor

To the editor: Everyone is scrambling over the costs at the marina, but there seems to be an option that no one has discussed: simply pay the company or companies involved the agreed to amount plus allowances that were in the contract for unforseen e

To the editor: So, another $8.6 million has been requested to cover cost overruns at the waterfront. I think taxpayers should be angry.

So the first phase of the waterfront development is going to cost another $8.6 million more than originally planned. That makes it about $15 million over the original budget.

To the editor, I am writing in response to your Feb. 8, 2011 story titled Struggling with HST. The NDP is not telling the whole story when it comes to the HST.

Many mammals, humans included, experience something called the pilomotor reflex. In dogs this causes the hair on the neck and back to stand up. In humans it causes goosebumps on our skin.

To the editor: Families across Northwestern Ontario are struggling to keep up with the cost of living, save for retirement, finance their kids’ education and care for their aging parents.

To the editor: How is it that our government bails out Buchanan and gives them some $35 million to re-open a mill and does not force him to payout those unionized workers? There is something drastically wrong with this whole scenario.

To the editor: Bonnie Grootenboer’s letter from Feb. 4 merely repeats all the old saws about marijuana, saws that have been refuted time and again.

Northern Ontario needs its own energy rate. Without it, we may as well close up shop and tell big industrial business we’re not interested. Plain and simple, we produce power in this region much more cost-effectively than our neighbours to the south.

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. The arbitration award to city fire personnel this week by arbitrator Maureen Saltman is just that – opportunity for city council.