Letters to the Editor

To the editor: I am writing in response to three articles in last week’s Source, which include the editorial “Workers have rights.” I agree 100 per cent to the editorial but would suggest we take it one step further.

Thunder Bay has always claimed to have a giant heart. Last weekend the city and its residents proved it, coming out in full force to support the Special Olympics Ontario Winter Games.

What in the world is filial piety? I came across this term while I was reading about the perils of aging here in Canada and in China. It seems we have something in common with our Chinese friends.

The shell game Ken Buchanan is playing has to stop.

To the editor: Just who are the in-camera sessions designed to protect? As the people who pay the bills, the taxpayers of Thunder Bay are entitled to all the facts, not just those that administration wants to make public.

To the editor: For years now, one of the major concerns of our citizens has been the shortage of doctors and nurses in Northwestern Ontario. Too many families do not have a family doctor or they have to drive for hours to access health services.

Thankfully a fight caught on tape at a local theatre Sunday night between a 15-year-old girl and an 11-year-old girl amounted to little more than a few bruises and a black eye.

It’s tough being a dad at Christmas. Dads are expected to behave like Bing Crosby or the guy from The Night Before Christmas but most of the time they end up looking like a cross between Clark Griswald and Bad Santa.

To the editor: I would like to submit the following comments regarding the article by Bruce Hyer in the Dec. 17 issue of the Source.

To the editor: In the reader’s letter (Hydro Woes, Dec. 10, 2010), his second last paragraph states that his hydro rate increases are taken directly from Thunder Bay Hydro releases.