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LETTER: The high cost of free parking

LETTER: The high cost of free parking

'Parking is a service like many others the city provides and when looking at increasing user fees, does it not make sense to start with parking?' reader asks
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LETTER: Private healthcare violates fundamental Canadian values

LETTER: Private healthcare violates fundamental Canadian values

Five principles of Canada Health Act are public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability and accessibility
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LETTER: Hospital's policies cause delays in SAH

LETTER: Hospital's policies cause delays in SAH

Letter writer believes patients in hospitals get 'backed up' because only doctors can order different tests, causing delays in the emergency
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LETTER: Need to change our perspective on private healthcare

LETTER: Need to change our perspective on private healthcare

'The beggar cannot be a chooser, and that is essentially what we are, when it comes to our current healthcare model'
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LETTER: Privatization won't fix Ontario's health care issues

LETTER: Privatization won't fix Ontario's health care issues

Reader Bill Slater has some questions when it comes to Sault MPP Ross Romano's recent comments on health care
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LETTER: Recognizing challenged books list a welcome initiative

LETTER: Recognizing challenged books list a welcome initiative

Reader Camille DeSumma feels some of the books 'help combat the dangerous atmosphere of close-mindedness'
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LETTER: Depriving elderly of their loved ones causes suffering

LETTER: Depriving elderly of their loved ones causes suffering

Plan to charge $400 a day to frail elderly patients — to coerce them into accepting transfer to long-term care far from home — an egregious violation of their rights
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LETTER: 'Banned' books were hardly a problem

LETTER: 'Banned' books were hardly a problem

Reader says books on today's banned or 'challenged' list were enjoyed by her students
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LETTER: Great Northern Rd, 2nd Line ground zero for bad decisions

LETTER: Great Northern Rd, 2nd Line ground zero for bad decisions

'If we don't consider how the design of the city itself encourages congestion and a lack of safety on our roads, we're doomed to keep looking for a bigger hammer,' letter writer says
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LETTER: Clouds from steel plant smell, make it hard to breathe

LETTER: Clouds from steel plant smell, make it hard to breathe

Reader who lives next door to plant says large orange plume photographed by residents this week 'far from unusual'
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