Category: Letter to Editor
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Your TV Guide Printout.
I have to commend the Free Press for printing the daily TV Guide in the newspaper after the cancellation of the weekly edition, along with the color coding which makes it easy to find things. However, it is unfortunate that you choose NOT to publi More»
Posted By: D. Tindall, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Medical Student Poetry & Prose Competition
A group of first year medical students at the University of Western Ontario will be participating in a 24 hour famine to raise support and awareness for a mission in downtown London, Ontario (called Ark Aid). The famine event includes a simulation wo More»
Posted By: Matthew Piamonte, HBSc MD Candidate, Class of 2014 Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry The University of Western Ontario, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
A Feel Good Story
Hello! I am writing about an upcoming event in my father-in-laws life that has been over 50 years in the making. My father-in-law (Heinz Eichler) is turning 80 on May 3rd of this year. Heinz was a very young man of 17 years when he escaped the con More»
Posted By: Vic Masseo C/O The Eichler Family, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
water
Ian Gillepie's diatribe on flourine and the information on the web is wrong in fact. He ignores major sources of information on the web and wrongly disparages a huge volume of peer reviewed scientific publications dealing with the toxicity of flourid More»
Posted By: joe cummins, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Fluoride Harmful, Don't be Deceived
Regarding Ian Gillespie's article What Next? Fluoride killing polar bears? (Feb 11) Rather ironically the polar bear population is actually on the rise, despite the global warming propaganda you otherwise hear from the media on television. Unfortunat More»
Posted By: Ryan Murphy, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
OUTSCOURSING
We are buying all kinds of goods made outside our borders,and then we wonder why there are so many canadians out of a job. That is exactly the reason why. We all should look at the goods we buy and find out where they are made. If we question that of More»
Posted By: jake vanderleeuw, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
FC soccer
I read an article in the Free Press last month regarding the announcement of the FC London Soccer Club helping young soccer players and that was nice to see but it indicated that it was only for boys. There is now an equally amazing opportunity for y
Posted By: Kevin Charron, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
water
In regard to Mr. Gillespies editorial on fluoridated water; I read with enormous disappointment. Finally someone is doing something about fluoride in our water system (an industrial waste product, carcinogen, VERY well documented health concern etc. More»
Posted By: Kris Pypka, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Adler's rants go overboard as well as Cherry's.
A friend visiting in England, impressed with the British PM's pragmatic views , shared them in a Charles Adler article in which Adler as ever attacked Canada's multiculturalism policy. This in turn caused me to ponder the issues addressed and most im More»
Posted By: Wally & Diana Cherwaty, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
TV Guide
Since you have dropped the weekly TV Guide and you are putting it in the daily paper, you do not have a conversion column for Shaw Direct, you have put in Rogers and Bell express View but not Shaw. We would greatly appreciate the addition. Also there More»
Posted By: Ann, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
From the field to your cup
The page A2 article on February 15 about chocolate production was very interesting. It's a pity you left out the part about how much of our chocolate is the product of child slavery.
Posted By: Paul Harris, Denfield
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Another Scarf Hazzard
All children are prone to losing a scarf during the winter months and my granddaughter is no exception. My daughter taught her how to wear her scarf so she is not so apt to lose it. You fold it in half with the ends together, wrap it around your neck More»
Posted By: C. M. Richardson, Grandma, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Jail For McConnell
I get angry when I hear speculative decisions being handed down to people who commit crimes. Mr. McConnell should pay the price for his crime just as the little guy on the street does when he commits a crime. So, he has a good teaching record and ski More»
Posted By: Paul Worotny, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Regarding letter from M M S Kumar, Dump Snow Someplace Else, Feb.16
Now really, what is expected with regards to snowplowing. The streets need to be cleared and with some driveways being maybe 80 ft. apart what does one expect the drivers to do? I live in a rural area & the same happens here. Again, what else can More»
Posted By: M. Coward, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Stephen Harper
Re "Harper suffering case of Air-Force-One envy. " (Feb. 15): Stephen Harper is also suffering from delusions of adequacy. It's probably swelled his head that his five-year minority government is being compared, in some quarters, to Lest More»
Posted By: William Bedford, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
need protection from the McGuinty government.
Thank you Mr. McGuinty for spending our tax dollars an ads giving us signing delay protection from those evil energy marketers and their pushy contracts I guess they are really out to get us now, thanks to you providing them with a sales pitch as a m More»
Posted By: Geoff Dillon, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Arena a city money - maker
I would challenge Councilor Joe Swan's knowledge of accounting if he thinks the John Labatt arena is a money maker. I do not see " the good news" in the figures quoted, for this year $594,047 income, and $4.17 million paid on the mortgage. More»
Posted By: Graham Forster, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
energy
Watching the Evolution of Collapse: No wind energy from lakes Ontario's Green Energy Act showed visionary leadership in the struggle to end society's addictive dependency on fossil fuels. GEA has been enormously successful at creating jobs and invest More»
Posted By: Don Chisholm, Picton
Posted On: February 20, 2011
A FAMILY'S LOSS
I'm writing in responce to the above article in the lfp on Feb.18.11. My heart goes out to anyone losing a child - it has to be the worst-case scenario. But having said that, there are limits to the accusations one should make, even in the depths More»
Posted By: maria benham, arva
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Offshore wind moratorium justification hard to swallow
The Ontario Government says it is freezing off-shore wind power development due to concerns about potential impacts on drinking water supplies. This stated concern, however, is just a bit hard to swallow given the government's inaction on a number of More»
Posted By: Theresa McClenaghan, executive director, Canadian Environmental Law Association, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Report of Infant,s Impending Death on Achannel
I have been a faithful follower of Achannel for as long as it has existed. I have enjoyed for the most part the newscasts. However, the handling of the story about the infant who is dying crossed all lines of decency. To show pictures of the boy and More»
Posted By: Bob Leatham, ILderton
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Need protection from The McGuinty Government revised
Thank you Mr. McGuinty for spending our tax dollars on ads giving us grace period protection from those evil energy marketers and their pushy contracts. I guess they are really out to get us now, thanks to your smart meter program which provides them More»
Posted By: Geoff Dillon, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Egypt better off without help from the West
Egypt would be better off becoming less like Canada when politics is concerned. To hold up Canada as one of the world's top democracies is a joke. I agree with the thoughts of Iain Paterson in Saturday's Free Press when he, more or less, states that More»
Posted By: Paul A. Leinweber, St. Mary's
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Rerun of Public Medicare
I attended the meeting at the Petrolia Rec centre Friday the 18th. There was a real effort to get us to decide what we wanted from Dalton's Government. Like the suckers we were we didn't just go for the Gold and demand the return of Medicare the w More»
Posted By: Bob Scott Petrolia, london
Posted On: February 20, 2011
Letter to the editor Mcguinty's hydro experiment a complete failure
The Mcguinty government has been handing out thousands of conditional contracts for solar and wind power for people to go ahead with there projects without any thought once the project is complete how is that power going to get on the grid as the gri More»
Posted By: Ross Ayotte, Smiths Falls
Posted On: February 20, 2011