Letters: More gun laws are not the answer to tragic shootings

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The Money Cup, otherwise known as the World Cup, has clearly put business ahead of sport, and the sad reality is that sports have now become solely a business. Is this the end game for these world events? The real win has become putting as much money as possible into organizers’ bank accounts at the expense of the players and the viewers.

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Douglas Cornish, Ottawa

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Hands off my trees

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A Quebec town’s decision to grant “rights” to trees — apparently in accord with an environmental lobby group — is another dangerous piece of legislation that may have an unfortunate tendency to spread. It should be firmly discouraged.

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“Protecting” trees affects farmers because we own the most privately owned trees. I hand-planted my entire farm in trees, matching their characteristics to my soils. I know my managed forest better than any government or urban person with time on their hands, and resent city folks deciding what I can do with them.

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My trees are my crop, like hay. I nurture them individually, though the physical labour at my age — filling gaps, suppressing grass and weeds and pruning for best form — is becoming onerous. Nonetheless, I intend them to be harvested sustainably, starting when some mature in about 60 more years.

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Let no politician or lobbyist dictate my farm forest practices.

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Charles Hooker, East Garafraxa, Ont.

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Step back, Chief Justice

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In his column, Michael Higgins noted that it was Chief Justice Richard Wagner himself who declared (through the Supreme Court’s registrar) that he need not recuse himself from the truckers convoy appeal.

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But it is not his decision. The Supreme Court of Canada test for whether a judge must recuse themselves for bias is “… Would an informed person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having thought the matter through, think it is more likely than not that the decision-maker, whether unconsciously or consciously, would not decide the matter fairly?”

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I am such an “informed person,” and I think he would not “decide the matter fairly,” so step back Your Honour.

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Jacques Konig, Toronto

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Of Musk and woke Martians

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As I was reading Amy Hamm’s article on new trillionaire Elon Musk, I thought of how we all strive to be rich and successful, but let one person succeed when we haven’t reached that pinnacle, and the slings and arrows start flying.

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The same applies to Israel. If that country was still a nomadic desert and the citizens were getting large amounts of money from the UN, then all our activists would be content. Nobody likes a successful, thriving, intelligent society. After all, it makes us look like such under-achievers. So what do we do to make us feel better? We let the world know that these people are the lowest of the low.

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I say, “Way to go Elon and Israel.“ We need people like Musk who set the bar high enough that we have to stand on our toes to reach the top. As for Israel, show me another country with such a small population that has given so much to the world in science, technology and medicine.

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Margaret Johnson, Airdrie, Alta.

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As a retired teacher receiving support for Post-Traumatic Woke Syndrome, I would ask my former colleagues to donate part of their pensions to a special fund to send all of our illiberal and hypocritical woke administrators on a one-way trip on Elon Musk’s rocket ship to Mars. There they can indoctrinate and submit the Martians to their authoritarian utopia free of their chosen oppressors, and teachers back on Earth can get back to truly empowering students to acquire the skills they will need to navigate this crazy world.

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Mike Sternberg, Ottawa

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