Letters to the Editor

Stephen Harper is now going to downplay what's happening in Afghanistan. We'll no longer be able to see our brave young soldiers when they arrive home to their final resting place. We'll not fly our flags at half-mast to honour them.

Fluoride is responsible for widespread impairment of human efficiency and for an enormous amount of ill health and disease.

According to Sudbury Downs general manager Ken LeDrew, "the slots are doing very well and so is the racetrack.

Last week Community and Social Services Minister Sandra Pupatello was interviewed on CBC Radio.

Are people using food banks suffering from nutritional deficiencies? In some cases, yes, largely because they do not receive sufficient income to afford a healthy diet, and are forced to supplement their diet with food from food banks.

I am a mother of two children, aged seven and nine. I am also a home daycare provider for five children from the ages of one to five. Daily we are outside, going for walks, biking, using the trails, and heading to the nearby park.

For more than  30 years I have listened to the city and to various tourism groups (some of which I have been part of) talk about selling Sudbury as a tourism destination.

Disabled parking bylaws should be enforced 12 months of the year, not just during a one-month blitz by Greater Sudbury Police.

Now is the perfect time to move the casino to downtown Sudbury. No other city hides one of it biggest moneymakers back in the bush out of site.

I was disappointed to read Michelle Murray's letter regarding the Sudbury Transit Terminal being locked when buses are still running. The security guards are not doing their jobs.