Letters to the Editor

Well it's almost new year, so I am going to start posting my rants and comments to the editors of the local papers.
In keeping with the tradition I wanted to start I will post them as I wrote them and as published (when published, I don't own the press)

This is one I published in reply to a rather officious letter. My letter is heavily edited prior to publishing and while the attempt was mainly to shorten the rather long text it is made hard to follow by the editing, and likely my main point is lost. The main point is that it is the written text of the constitution that should be important; not legislators and judges current guesses on what would be written today. That seems to be lost in the published letter:
http://www.adlib.ca/bp/RP_Dec26_07.htm

This one was in reply to an article where people were filing a human rights tribunal challenge since the schools were no longer searching every kids lunch in Woodbridge. There is essentially no editing, rare for the Era Banner.
http://www.adlib.ca/bp/Allergies_dec13_2007.htm

This was in reply to the National Post's editorial which bought into the untruth that the Conservative Party was cutting taxes. In fact the Conservatives were simply reducing the rate of increase of taxation and since they are spending more than the Liberals ever did longer term taxes will have to increase.
http://www.adlib.ca/bp/NP_Oct31_2007.htm

This one was in reply to people be-moaning how few people were voting. In this election just barely half the people bothered to vote in Ontario. Rather than simply noting this was because they are not interested and moving onto better candidates or some-such the suggestion was that people should be forced to vote. An authoritarian over reaction!
http://www.adlib.ca/bp/EraB_Oct19th2007.htm

Health Care is a subject I have written in abot many times, this one got replied to twice by the insiders of the public health care monoploly that currently rations health care in Canada. It must have stuck a little close to home methinks?
http://www.adlib.ca/bp/NP_Sept7th2007.htm

This one is the one time I thought the National Post really let me down. They changed the content to be something I would ever say, and to make me support their editorial position when in fact I was attacking it, on this point anyway since in general I agree with most of thier editorial content.
http://www.adlib.ca/bp/NP_Aug10th,%202007.htm

When I moved to Newmarket the tax rates were half of the next town over, Aurora. In ten years they are now almost the same, and no Aurora's have not come down. Every year the town council publishs a letter saying that by enormous effort they have managed to keep down the tax increases to only double and sometimes triple inflation; right real heros. The worst of the lot, Tom Taylor, managed to get a ravine full of signs in his honour as well as a trail named after him even before he retired! He probably claimed they are all free, like his free city hall boondoggle.
http://www.adlib.ca/bp/EBJune13th2007.htm