Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In response to the letter from Mr. Robert Wills of Thorne: Mr. Wills, I applaud your reuse and repurpose spirit. I firmly believe that everyone profits when we take time to reuse and repurpose.   Those pill bottles

Dear Editor, I awaken, the sky is always black, my skin seems greenish. I have no mojo. Am I a martian? Am I now the first man on Mars? Did they adjust the doomsday clock? Not quite . . .

Dear Editor, Having once believed the Quebec healthcare system could not possibly be abused any further – after decades of Quebec Liberal penny-pinching, damaging reforms that favoured big cities over rural communities, and the abolition of hospital boards – the

Dear Editor, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the person who reported the smell of smoke on Oct. 19 in Otter Lake. Thanks to your quick action, a fire was discovered and prevented from spreading further. I

Dear Editor, Unbelievably the CAQ government is passing new laws, 89 and 3, in the National Assembly to weaken the power of unions to strike. This repressive 1940s Duplessis-style governing is done to prevent “serious harm to the citizenry”. How

Dear Editor, What sort of cryptic formula is this? Well, it indicates that in dealing with waste material, there is a hierarchy of efficiency. We have the mechanisms in place for us to ship our plastic waste downriver to places

In a previous Letter to the Editor in THE EQUITY, Linda Lafortune stated a complaint was sent to the CMQ alleging I had violated 21 clauses of the warden’s code of conduct. Now it has been brought to my attention

Dear Editor, Democracy, at the core, includes the tenet that everyone is entitled to their opinion. At no time is this more sacred than in the moment when someone is approaching the voting booth.  We all have something we can

Dear Editor, Community volunteer organizations can do wonders when they work cooperatively with politicians. It is the philosophy of the Citizens of the Pontiac (CoP) that citizens shouldn’t rely only on busy elected officials to initiate every program that could

Dear Editor, Elections are coming; your chance to shape your world. Here’s what I would like to see in the upcoming municipal and MRC elections: voters asking questions of the candidates before they vote, rather than complaining afterward that councillors,