Letters to the Editor

Our family recently renewed our YMCA membership. However, we were disappointed to find free parking for members is now located on Elgin St. (beside the train station). Walking from Elgin in the winter months using strollers is not easy.

Vancouver's mayor is calling it quits. I take my hat off to Larry Campbell. He brought humour, compassion and even a trace of glamour to Vancouver. He was virtually guaranteed to win a second term, had he chosen to run again.

With regard to Tracey Duguay's column LU area needs second access road in the Feb. 4 edition, thumbs up to Councillors Bradley, Caldarelli and Reynolds who voted a second time to reject Dalron's proposal. At the Feb.

On Sunday, June 26, my husband and I decided to attend the Classic Car Show at Bonaventure Mall in Chelmsford. As we got out of our vehicle, we heard what sounded like a small animal whimpering in distress.

I find it hypocritical of the Roman Catholic Church to speak about its responsibility to uphold ethical and moral values (not to mention the sanctity of marriage), when the church refuses to grant survivors of clergy abuse recognition of the damage d

Canada's health-care system is about to be struck by a wave of Alzheimer Disease that will last a quarter century. Next year 10 million baby boomers begin to turn 60, with the last of them reaching that age by 2031.

About four years ago a group of Sudbury citizens came together under the leadership of professor emeritus Jean Havel to consider the plight of orphans living in the sewers of Bogotá, Columbia.

I commend Northern Life and Heidi Ulrichsen for the balanced reporting on the protest at Diane Marleau's office last Friday. I am opposed to changing the definition of marriage for many reasons.

I'd like to respond to Cathy Hopper's letter against gay marriages. I'm sorry that I didn't attend the rally outside of MP Diane Marleau's office to add my voice to the six gay activists.

Prime Minister Paul Martin and Finance Minister Ralph Goodale are very pleased that they were able to create a budget surplus of $12.1 billion. But here is some truth that might shed a bit of light of the surplus funds.