Opinion

'First, the amount to be levied will amount to 10 per cent of our tax bill. Secondly this is a nine-per-cent tax increase despite a recent 62-per-cent drop in ridership from 1.02 million to 390,000.'

'This year I learned the effects of a heat wave, temperatures up to 38 C and probably higher on the west wall of my house where I grow many of my tomatoes.'

'It's time the province's public-health restrictions regarded our dinner tables in the same way as open seating next to strangers in restaurants.'

'This, from a federal government that still cannot provide clean drinking water to its Indigenous citizens and a prime minister that doesn’t even honour Sept. 30 — the Day of Truth and Reconciliation — that he instituted.'

' ... a major overhaul needs to be done on fiscal responsibility, transparency, and common sense, or lack thereof.'

'The deferral program has led to unpaid bills of more than $14 million. Now, current good-standing customers are seeing an unfair rate-rider increase in their utility bills to cover this shortfall.'

'Every venue has its own fees, so you can't access different venues within one day without paying two or three separate fees.'

'If students cannot take the bus to school or walk, could a parent drop them off at school to make life easier for residents?'

'What we should be doing in a world fighting poverty is helping China move off of coal by shipping our natural gas there, not shutting down the supply they are desperate for.'

Mental-health struggles must be as acceptable in the first-responder workplace as physical injuries from being at the scene of a collision or a structural fire.