Letters to the Editor
Correction
1 minute read Friday, Apr. 26, 2024Books received by participants at the 22nd annual Milestones Preschool Wellness Fair were donated by Sunset Rotary and the Rotary Club of Brandon. Incorrect information appeared in the Sun’s April 24 edition.
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How about some new trees?
1 minute read Thursday, Jul. 13, 2023How about some new trees?
Please, City of Brandon, plant new trees bordering the Assiniboine River. Once new trees are established with roots securing the riverbank, then please remove those old skeleton dead trees dating back to previous floods. The First Street entrance is naturally beautiful except for the riverbank of dead skeleton trees.
ELIZABETH SUMNER
Neepawa
Other intersections need attention
1 minute read Tuesday, Jun. 20, 2023With all the attention focused on the junction of Highway 5 and the Trans-Canada, I keep wondering about the junction of highways 18 and 23 south of Ninette and north of Killarney. It is the only Manitoba highway intersection I am aware of that does not have streetlights at the intersection.
Now with the change of the intersection and the removal of the merging curve, I wonder how long until we have a serious accident. I have already noted vehicle tracks in the dirt where the merging curve used to be. If someone is not familiar with this intersection, a bad accident could happen in the dark.
BERNIE TURNER
Killarney
Defeat of book ban a ‘fragile’ victory
4 minute read Monday, Jun. 5, 2023There is cause for celebration by Brandonites who put a stop to a malignant, ill-informed effort to ban books written to educate students on sexuality and gender identity.
However, as Deveryn Ross suggests, it is naive to believe that the issue of banning these books has been laid to rest.
As a society we are distancing ourselves from defining or accepting universal morals. Morals such as love, respect, generosity begin to have no universal standing and universal application amongst a significant portion of our society. In the name of ‘liberty’, ‘freedom’, we feel free to chose and define the morals which will guide our behaviour and define the boundaries of these morals.
Boundaries such as gender identity, race, colour, creed, language, friend, community, group. Anyone outside of those boundaries, it is rationalized, can be and should be shunned, excluded, even vilified.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Choosing love, acceptance, kindness
1 minute read Thursday, May. 18, 2023To Linda Ross,
Most of what I wish to convey in response to Ms. Hackenschmidt’s presentation has been said: some eloquently, some with personal risk, some poetically.
And so, as a nonagenarian having time for learning, reflection, experience, yet fading skill, I am challenged by lives, courage and angels amongst not to be carried only by them. I am a member of Knox United Church. I was a member of PFLAG and I am a supporter of Brandon Pride.
Synthia Wright’s succinct and beautiful letter encapsulated most of what I wished I could have written. Some hurts stay with us all our lives no matter what greatness we have given to the world.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Freedom increases within ‘15-minute city’
3 minute read Friday, Mar. 31, 2023I was dismayed to learn there is so much disinformation and misinformation out there about the “15-minute city” concept.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Words matter, minister
3 minute read Wednesday, Mar. 22, 2023Brandon Overdose and Area Awareness would like to take a few minutes to respond to the article in the Winnipeg Free Press on March 14, 2023 and The Brandon Sun on March 15, from Janice Morley-Lecomte, the provincial minister of health and community wellness.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Unpacking minister’s letter
4 minute read Thursday, Mar. 16, 2023I read with great interest the letter to the editor from Janice Morley-Lecomte, the minister of mental health and community wellness, in regard to prioritizing addiction and recovery services.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Scrapping program a step backward
3 minute read Thursday, Mar. 16, 2023Linda Ross and the rest of the trustees who voted to eliminate the health-care aide program seem to be out of touch with the needs of the community.
Prioritizing addictions and recovery services
4 minute read Preview Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Remember what others fought, died for
2 minute read Tuesday, Mar. 14, 2023Re: Ottawa fast-tracks weapon purchases as military commanders warn of numerous other gaps. (Winnipeg Free Press, March 9)
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tell them you’re upset
5 minute read Tuesday, Mar. 14, 2023Let’s be “that country!” The country that really means it when we say we want the best health-care system, the best education system, top-notch law enforcement and fire departments and so on. We should take pride in how our country has been committed to, and how it has been providing public “social” program services.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Missed opportunity for Indigenous funding
5 minute read Friday, Mar. 10, 2023On March 3, our organization learned of funding opportunities through Brandon Neighborhood Renewal Corporation’s (BNRC) Reaching Home Initiative according to a Brandon Sun article. A potential sum of $300,000 is available to Indigenous organizations through the Indigenous stream that is designed to assist community-based programming in preventing and reducing homelessness at a local level.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Heckling serves no purpose in politics
2 minute read Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023When Canadians vote to elect MPs or MLAs, I think they have certain expectations that the candidates have not only intelligence but common sense, and that they are interested in the position not just for personal gain, but to try to improve the lot of their constituents. They also expect moral and ethical behaviour. Reading Niigaan Sinclair’s “No Place for Toxic, Racist Behaviour,” therefore, leaves me disappointed and angry as most of those qualities were lacking, it seems, among B.C. legislators.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Brandon needs more community centres
2 minute read Friday, Mar. 3, 2023On Tuesday, I attended the Ward 2 meeting at the Park Community Centre. I would encourage city council to get behind this project. After hearing the feedback from residents, it appears it has not been properly addressed. The request for proposals came in and it was just set aside with what seems like poor communication back to the community centre.
So many health-care issues
2 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023I read an article in The Brandon Sun explaining that even though Canada educates enough replacement doctors, it does not as a policy hire them locally.
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