Letters to the Editor, April 13, 2026

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Published Apr 13, 2026 • Last updated 19 minutes ago • 1 minute read

GROCERY GAMBIT WILL FAIL

Re “What gov’t can do to help instead of running grocery store” (Sylvain Charlebois, April 2): Only Toronto could look at a housing crisis and decide the answer is to sell lettuce. Toronto running grocery stores is a political stunt, not a solution. The numbers don’t support the panic. StatsCan’s latest data shows food is 15.7% of household spending — lower than the 20-25% Canadians spent for decades. Prices are higher, but affordability is historically better. Meanwhile, housing now eats over 32% of the household budget. That’s the real crisis. But instead of fixing zoning, permitting or transit, City Hall wants to sell produce. If Toronto can’t run transit reliably or issue building permits in under a geological era, the idea it will run a cheaper grocery chain is fantasy. The city should focus on the responsibilities it already fails to meet.

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WHY SPACE?

All across Canada, the U.S. and beyond, we need more hospitals, doctors, nurses. The need for food banks are at an all-time high. Global chaos is running rampant. Yet here we are, spending billions of dollars on space exploration, for what? To see if there is life on other planets? To see if it’s possible for mankind to possibly travel and live there? Humans have already destroyed this planet, do we want that to happen to the other planets? Such a waste of time and money. Fortunately, I’m on the downside of life and won’t have to witness what happens 40 years from now. But I sure would love to be a fly on the wall. And did the first moon landing even happen? Or was that a government/Hollywood boondoggle? Just saying …

Roy Banman

St. Thomas, Ont.

(Space exploration is an important step for humanity. Governments can choose to waste less on irrelevant projects.)

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