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LETTER: 'Accessible accommodation' must be offered before eviction

LETTER: 'Accessible accommodation' must be offered before eviction

When tiny cabins are offered, encampment residents generally take them, legal clinic argues
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LETTER: Province needs to fix 'broken' health-care system

LETTER: Province needs to fix 'broken' health-care system

Letter writer blames 'failure of imagination and basic arithmetic skills on the part of the Ford government'
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LETTER: Berczy Park shows 'worst' and 'best' of Barrie

LETTER: Berczy Park shows 'worst' and 'best' of Barrie

Municipal leadership 'severely lacking' around controversial homeless encampment, says letter writer
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LETTER: Weekend fires at homeless encampments raise alarm

LETTER: Weekend fires at homeless encampments raise alarm

Reader says it's 'pure luck' someone hasn't been seriously injured; resident calling on government to 'do something concrete about this situation'
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LETTER: Wasps are not pests but pest controllers

LETTER: Wasps are not pests but pest controllers

Reader urges people to protect wasps, because they are 'remarkable pollinators' in late summer and early autumn
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LETTER: Outdoors columnist provides learning, laughter

LETTER: Outdoors columnist provides learning, laughter

'I always enjoy reading your take on nature and always learn a thing or two along with having a chuckle,' reader says of David Hawke's columns
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LETTER: Drivers need to re-learn rules of the road

LETTER: Drivers need to re-learn rules of the road

Area resident tired of people trying to pass on the left while he's pulling into his driveway
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LETTER: Consider joining school council, reader urges

LETTER: Consider joining school council, reader urges

'Research continues to reinforce that parent involvement in a child’s education improves their child’s academic performance,' letter writer says
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LETTER: Why isn't province tackling gambling addiction?

LETTER: Why isn't province tackling gambling addiction?

'Mr. Ford and his government are making it all the easier to place bets and buy lottery tickets,' says letter writer
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LETTER: School boards need to stop 'reckless spending'

LETTER: School boards need to stop 'reckless spending'

Money spent on hotel accommodations 'could be better spent on hiring more teachers,' says letter writer
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