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Wow. Can NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman spin it around? To say that someone who is the deputy general manager of an NHL hockey team had a minority position is unbelievable. I guess his role as an assistant general manager was to run around to get Stan Bowman and Joel Quenneville coffee and be a general errand boy. Vancouver fans will remember when Brian Burke was Pat Quinn’s assistant general manager in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was the person in Canucks management who was always front and center, while Quinn was more behind the scenes focusing on his general manager duties. even weeks after Quinn hired him. And then there is the $ 2 million fine that Bettman imposed against the Blackhawks. I suppose they will pay that fine with the petty cash.
Like the guy at the top of the old man’s club, Bettman has to go.
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R. Bassani, Maple Ridge
Playing in Scotland while the world burns
David Suzuki is right about two things: This planet did quite well for billions of years before humans appeared, and it will do well for billions of years after we leave. These are the kinds of environmental, health-related, food supply and economic problems that our children and grandchildren will have to deal with in the future, so we should be worrying more than anything else. And now, yet another gathering of world leaders to discuss climate change that will undoubtedly produce nothing more than predictable confusion and superficial rationalizations aimed at camouflaging the fact that what little they have done to address these impending crises has been obviously short. psychic, inadequate, self-protective, and ultimately indifferent to the long-term well-being of our children and grandchildren.
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More yada-yada-yada as rising temperatures threaten our health, food sources and economic stability, and our political leaders work very hard to maintain the illusion that they are meeting their responsibilities to find solutions to the crises that they threaten to overwhelm our ability to deal with them.
The absence of real leadership when we need it more than ever. But of course, in relation to what needs to be done to improve the problems we face, it would be naive to believe that there is a necessary correlation between politics and true leadership. Yada-yada-yada with a Scottish accent this time.
Ray Arnold, Richmond
Re: As Mandate Goes Into Effect, Ranks Of Unvaccinated NYPDs, Firefighters Dwindle
I am a retired firefighter and I find it quite difficult to rationalize why people who deal with the public in a professional manner will not be protected by a vaccine.
You are professional firefighters and your job is to save and protect lives. Refusing to get vaccinated against this virus is beyond comprehension. Without protection, they are not only putting themselves at risk, they are also exposing the public and their own families.
Brian Barnes, Steveston
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