Here are today’s letters from the Ottawa Sun to the editor.
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SEND A MESSAGE WITH HOCKEY
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Re: Lose Olympic Boycott, Letter, Dec 10
Two things regarding your response to this writer, in which you say that some athletes have worked their entire lives for this opportunity.
The average age of these amateur athletes is around 20 years old. From where most of us sit and watch and after having worked our entire lives, 20 years is far from being “whole lives.” We have all faced many ups and downs and sacrifices to get here. Put your violin away, you don’t touch many heartstrings on that one.
Now, if you want a message from Canada about our disapproval of Chinese human rights policies, keep our men’s hockey team at home and out of the Olympics. These millionaire “pro” athletes have no reason to be there in the first place. I won’t see them defeat an amateur team 15-0. They have nothing to prove. Once again, the IOC’s greed for money trumps all, even removing common sense from its thoughts.
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NHL players and their union should take a stand. The NBA would make a statement like it has done before.
MIKE DEFALCO
ARNPRIOR
(Wow, the Games have gotten too political. But the IOC has nothing to do with our thoughts, common or not).
HOW DARE YOU!
Re: Yuletide in March: Top doc, Dec 10
Quoting Greta the Grinch Thunberg, “How dare you?” Dr. Etches, for suggesting that families reduce the most celebrated holiday season (Christmas) until March.
I mean you can’t make this up. The Bytown medical health officer has a certain gall to even suggest such a thing.
These bureaucrats are completely out of control and cannot seem to shed their newly acquired pandemic power. We’re celebrating December 25, not March, Doc.
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STEPHEN FLANAGAN
OTTAWA
(Staying well.)
WILL THINGS CHANGE?
Re: Watson’s announcement triggers unofficial start of mayoral race on December 11
Jim Watson not running? Well, it’s not often that we get good news in Ottawa these days.
I think his LRT legacy / disaster has a lot to do with it. I find it amusing that Watson calls the LRT an “achievement” while everyone else calls it a disaster. I guess we all “experience LRT differently”.
Now, will his successor plow the streets? Mowing the lawn in the parks? Or will we just have another photographer for mayor?
TIM BAKOS
GLOUCESTER
(Well played.)
FLOWERED UNDER WATSON
My friend and I were chatting a couple days ago about whether Jim Watson would run again and we both said no, and now it has been confirmed by the mayor himself. I added that if I ran, I would win again, no doubt, but the question was, did I want to? Either way, it would be like this, win or lose, and now it’s over for him.
You can now teach a course at Carleton University on municipal politics, journalism, or even public policy, if hired, as can former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, who now teaches at Mount Royal University.
Ottawa flourished under the leadership of Jim Watson, but given social media, being a politician at any level isn’t that simple anymore, and I thank those who still do.
ANANT NAGPUR
OTTAWA
(Politics is not for the faint of heart).
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