CITIES OVERRUN
Our current cities are getting too big and unmanageable. Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo all have problems with traffic, rats, crime, high taxes and high home prices to name a just a few issues. I used to live in Waterloo but now only go back there if I have to because the traffic is so messed up (KW politicians hate cars). I won’t even consider the three- to four-hour trip to Toronto or Hamilton. How about pushing growth into different parts of the province? Not onto prime farmland, but in good areas far from the GTA. A lot of nice, mid-sized towns sounds a lot better than a couple of rat-infested, traffic-jammed slums.
Mark Yates
Elmira, Ont.
(It’s a nice idea and many people are leaving the “big city”. But people make decisions based on access and proximity to schools, work and health care)
ANGER AND HATE
So much anger and hate today and one wonders why a young, vulnerable man attempted to assassinate someone he apparently hated. Social media remarks like ‘two inches to the right’ or ‘couldn’t happen to a nicer guy’ are just examples of what our young minds absorb on a daily basis. Politicians and their constant drum beat of innuendos and lies make them just as guilty as this vulnerable young man who attempted the assassination that sadly left two rally attendees critically injured and one dead.
Peter J. Middlemore Sr.
Windsor
(When you repeatedly say your political opponent is an existential threat and is as bad as Hitler, eventually someone who isn’t all there in the head is going to act)
LOOK THEM IN THE EYE
We seem to have lost our sense of road courtesy. While driving on the 400 series of highways, I have noticed in stop-and-go traffic, drivers signal their intention to merge into traffic and expect others to move over for them. A car’s signals are not a command for others to move over. They are an indication an action is planned. Do yourself a favour, roll down your window, make eye contact with a driver and wave, suggesting you are requesting permission to merge. Everyone will be happier.
Dan MacGillivray
Hamilton
(If there is an opportunity to do so, that’s not a bad strategy)