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SHORT MEMORIES
I can forgive those who cannot remember the fiasco of the Bob Rae NDP government. That was a long time ago. But the Liberals? It was 15 years that they ruined this province. They put us in tremendous debt, did nothing for long-term care and almost nothing for the health-care system. They looked after their buddies and gave huge long-term contracts to foreign companies. They sold off Hydro One, which with the wind turbines increased the prices of electricity to the highest in North America. And Steven Del Duca? He was a cabinet minister. He sat right there and agreed with all the bad decisions. He was Wynne’s ‘attack dog.’ Now he wants us to trust him. He hasn’t earned my trust.
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Norman Shefman
toronto
(And it’s for many of those reasons that his criticisms of the Ford government ring hollow)
WHAT’S IN A NAME
Re “Ryerson kicked out of class” (Scott Laurie, April 27): Mundane is the only word that pops up when I learned the new name of Ryerson University. One student remarked that the Toronto Metropolitan University name reminded her of a bus stop. Tormet U, as it will surely be nicknamed by students, is such a letdown after all the fuss about changing the name. Why would the geniuses who chose this name not have honored Indigenous people by calling it Tecumseh, Elijah Harper, Louis Riel, Louie Kamookak, Obomsawin, or Hiawatha University? Or named it after an outstanding former Ontario minister of education and premier. Billy Davis U has a nice ring to it and would mean something to the people of Ontario. But wings! The politically correct activists whose direction we all must now follow would not approve of him because he once smoked a pipe.
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Jim McDonald
Dundas
(This renaming will accomplish very little and only make some people temporarily feel better about themselves)
RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT
Congratulations to the person who came up with the idea of putting a five- to seven-second delay before the light changes to green. Now I notice that instead of people running yellow lights they are now running the just-turned-red light. The problem is pedestrians get the green to walk on at the start of the red before the traffic light turns green for vehicles to proceed. Why do they do that? Simple, people know there are no police on the road. When he was young if he drove to the corner store he would pass two cop cars. Now you can drive through the city for five hours and never see a cop. I wonder when someone running a light kills a pedestrian walking on their green, will things change then?
Andy Mehl
(With so much available technology, it is shocking Toronto hasn’t figured out a reasonable flow of traffic and timing lights)
WHAT A MESS
Much has been said about governments of our day being of all talk and of little action. This very thought reverberates through my mind every day when I travel Ontario’s highways. It was so much easier to remove the license plate slogan ‘Keep It Beautiful’ than it was to clean up the endless disgusting litter.
arnold mooney
Grimsby
(This time of year is not a good look for our roads)