Letters to the Editor

The city of Thunder Bay won’t be charging the Border Cats baseball team rent this year.

Injured and disabled workers snubbed by Premier

Minister of Northern Development and Mines defends Liberal record, Ring of Fire progress.

As the Children and Youth Advocate for the City of Thunder Bay for the last three years, I have been quite involved and collaborated with many community organizations whose aim is to create a better future.

Why are Thunder Bay councillors patting themselves on the back for passing yet another budget with spending above the rate of inflation while drawing down on dangerously low reserve funds?

Thank you for providing an opportunity to respond to your editorial of Feb. 8, 2018.

It’s befuddling. Thunder Bay taxpayers contributed $106,000 to a study that’s turned out to be fatally deficient. Now, taxpayers are ponying up another $25,000 to fix it. The study was done by Stantec for Soccer Northwest.

The city would like to create another rate supported entity.

Thunder Bay’s new rainfall tax isn’t even law yet and already city homeowners are getting hosed.

On Wednesday January 3, the 2018 budget process was launched and should be concluded by January 31, with ratification by Council on Monday February 5, 2018, almost a full month ahead of last year.