Archive for category: Letters to the Editor

To the Expositor: The Lake Manitou Area Association (LMAA) was established in 1993. Its activities include monitoring the ecological health of Lake Manitou and related educational activities. We wish to share with Expositor readers our serious concern with Lake Manitou’s continued ability to support its provincially significant lake trout fishery. [...]

To the Expositor: Just a note of appreciation to fellow Islanders Craig Maxwell and Maurianne Reade who received objective coverage in this newspaper of their efforts to ensure a competent voice will represent Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in our House of Commons (‘NDP elects new leader at national convention, March [...]

To the Expositor: To our MPP and MP I write this letter, and to all those concerned. I read the editorial in your paper January 4, 2012 (‘Ontario should eliminate assessment on First Nations local acquisitions, page 4), but I found many didn’t agree with it. When a meeting was [...]

To the Expositor: Climate change is all everybody is talking about. People are protesting about environmental damages, but the damages will keep happening unless people can change their ways and a lot of sacrificing has to be done, like parking their cars more often and letting go of their luxury [...]

To the Expositor: In his letter to the editor (‘Drummond Report charts a clear path for the future of health care, March 7, page 5) Russ Boyles, chair of the Health Sciences North board of directors, praised the Drummond Report and stated that it affirmed his board’s opinion that when [...]

To the Expositor: Northland’s Windpower Project on McLean’s Mountain is a 43-turbine, 60 megawatt (MW) project, and the company does trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under symbols of (TSX: NPI) (NPI.PR.A) (NPI.DB.A). It has an economic net worth of producing 1,005 MW of operating generating capacity to the electricity [...]

To the Expositor: The Liberal Party of Ontario does not deserve any further opportunity to govern this once great province. This new budget is economically bad enough, but if you look closely you will find the following clauses that will surely lead to the further degradation if not complete annihilation [...]

To the Expositor: A study in The Journal of Climate Change (February 2012) reports that during the years 1973 to 2010, ice coverage across the Great Lakes has diminished by 71 percent—an astounding and troubling number. Ice loss negatively impacts both water quality and marine life, not to mention cultural [...]

To the Expositor: “Vanishing like snow before the April Sun,” was Sir Francis Bondhead’s dismal prognosis for the aboriginal peoples of Ontario. His hope of keeping the Native peoples isolated from white encroachment until that occurred set the stage for the treaty of 1836. Basically the Crown would make no [...]

To the Expositor: I write this letter as an avid angler and community member in Wikwemikong. With the spring weather upon us, anglers are gearing up for the annual spring rainbow trout fishing that is quickly becoming popular on the shores of Wikwemikong. It’s great to see locals from our [...]