Wednesday, April 26: PSAC members should recognize their good fortune, one reader says.
Judith O’Rourke, AylmerFor those who are striking, let me remind you that retired government employees have no representation at all. Why not? We pay the same prices as you do for food, gas, clothing, transportation, parking fees etc. How will you feel when you retire?
With regard to Wellington Street, Brigitte Pellerin says the mayor suffers from an affliction known as “car brain.” I suspect that label has something to do with his opposition to his main mayoral opponent last fall, who dreamed of a quarter-billion-dollar taxpayer investment in cycling lanes.Article content
Randall Denley argues that closing the “loophole” that allows Canadian surgeons to deliver medically necessary services through profit-making corporations would result in longer waiting times for critically sick patients. He apparently assumes that if that loophole were closed, those surgeons would stay home and use their highly skilled hands to play video games.
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