Letters to the Editor

‘The stakes are too high to give Trudeau another four years’

An open letter to Dr. Robert Haché from a proud Laurentian alumnus: ‘There is no way that you did not know you were playing with fire; the fire within the Franco-Ontarian community. Do you remember what happened when the government decided to close l'Hôpital Montfort?’

Letter-writer says Laurentian is the very fabric of Northern Ontario, our culture, our economy, our much-needed promise for the minds that pass through its halls’

‘Students have been reporting that their content is disappearing and their professors are having to re-upload the information’

‘We will use our voices, together, and say no. We will be the city that says we do not accept this’

‘There is money. Here are some places to look for tens of billions of dollars annually: tax havens, inheritance taxes, wealth taxes and more royalty taxes on natural resources’

‘Professors kicked to the curb in a shockingly tawdry fashion — by Zoom, no less.— 60 plus programmes jettisoned with, as far as I can see, no clear rationale for tossing them overboard’

‘What is happening is almost incomprehensible, on so many levels’

‘I am ashamed to have received degrees from an institution that selectively terminated individuals based on age, seniority and financial earnings rather than on merit and productivity’

'The CCAA process is like an iron shield that separates the banks, auditors and people responsible from answering the above and other questions. The CCAA allows the banks, auditors, senior administration and board members to hide like cowards’