Letters to the Editor

We should all be ashamed that access to clean drinking water needs to be an election promise.

As a young child of the ‘80s and early ‘90s, I often worried that quicksand was a much greater threat than it actually turned out to be.

We will not attend anything held at the New Event Centre. Others might. If you add up the area population to get a total of a drawing number, you should subtract the 60 or more per cent who are against the building of the centre.

As I write this, the Blue Jays hold the best record in the American League and are on the cusp of – with a single win or Yankee’s loss – clinching the American League East division title.

When Dryden Mayor Craig Nuttall resigned to take a job advising his nemesis, the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation, reporters had to ask if his was a case of, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em?” Nuttall said no.

To the editor: The Concerned Taxpayers of Thunder Bay believe that Plan B for a proposed event and convention entre is a bad plan for city taxpayers.

Don’t look now, but your xenophobia is showing. Late last week, the North Superior Workforce Planning Board released a report that shows a bleak economic future for this region.

To the editor: This is an open letter to all of those who sit on council. The mayor has announced yet again he wants to push forward with the event centre saying that the government will fund an amateur sports team.

On Monday night, Keith Hobbs is introducing a resolution under new business to have administration bring back a report to council on how he can proceed with a proposed event centre with Lakehead University as the anchor tenant.

To the editor, Who wants their monthly electricity bill doubled? This will happen very soon when the Wynne government sells off a portion of public ownership in Hydro One.