Letters to the Editor, May 18, 2024

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TAKE CARE OF OUR VULNERABLE

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We have become a culture that neglects its elderly, disabled and other vulnerable citizens. Rarely do we offer them our time. Leaving their needs unattended, we do not show these people that they are loved, and their mental health declines. Without love they see no reason to live, and eventually they consider suicide. Offering doctor-assisted suicide tells these people that their lives are not worth our time or energy. MAID offers them an easy way out of life, rather than a loving way to live life. Our vulnerable family members, friends and neighbours must be loved, and protected from euthanasia.

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Elisha Holwerda
Arthur, Ont.

(The guidelines around MAID have been too loose, but that is being addressed. The fact remains MAID is a choice many Canadians make for their own reasons)

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GONE ARE THE WELL DRESSED

A cottage-country girl working in a downtown Toronto law firm during the 1980s, I emulated the fashion savoir-faire of my more sophisticated co-workers. Proud was I to be working in a prosperous city, the financial capital of Canada and indeed one of the banking hubs of the world. Now retired, I see few well-dressed people on my infrequent visits to my old haunts, which leaves me wondering where the chic crowd has gone. Have the homeless lying about the streets taken their place? Many shops are closed. The cannabis emporia, though, remain in business. Could there somehow be a nexus here? Or is this concept so preposterous that only a rube like me would be likely to entertain it?

Carol-Faye Petricko
Toronto

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(The pandemic changed so many things, and not for the better. This is just one more consequence of it)

EXPENSIVE COSTS OF LIVING

I am 85 and on a fixed income My car insurance just increased $165, house insurance rose $110 and municipal taxes will go up over 5%. These higher costs and the Trudeau taxes that have caused grocery, utility and restaurant costs to rise make living in Canada on a low or fixed income a very humdrum scenario. Trudeau’s Liberals with inflated egos are collecting sales tax from gas pump carbon taxes, double taxing Canadians, while their budget raises cigarette and capital gain taxes.

Peter J. Middlemore Sr.
Windsor

(The cost of everything since Trudeau has been PM has skyrocketed. This is well beyond normal inflationary increases. His government’s spending, increased debt and deficits makes you ask – where has the money gone?)

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