Dear editor: The following letter has been sent to Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs minister Leona Dombrowsky: As you are aware, the producers of Rainy River District are in an impossible position with regard to our ability to eat meat produced on our farms; we do not have an abattoir, […]
Letters
All newspapers encourage letters to the editor and intend to print the opinions of their readers with as few restrictions as possible. The Fort Frances Times is no exception.
Rules governing letters to the editor in the Fort Frances Times are:
All letters must be signed, and the name of the writer will be printed with all letters published.
The writer must submit his/her letter in person and satisfactory identify themselves, or submit a telephone number to be used to verify that the letter was actually written by the person whose name is included on it, delaying publication if necessary to make the verification.
Letter will not be accepted from people outside the local coverage area unless the letters are written on a topic of primarily local interest.
If a letter attacks another individual or group, the Times will allow a response in the same edition.
Letters should not exceed 300 words and may be edited for length and content.
Dear editor: Winning the Liberal leadership by Quebecer Stéphane Dion might have fooled many television viewers on Saturday, as well as the delegates at the convention. But after the results of the second ballot were announced, it was obvious that Dion was going to be the new Liberal leader. My […]
Dear editor: Same old car, new paint. After 13 years of broken promises and corruption, the Liberals have picked a new front man. Their choice? An out-of-touch academic who spent 10 years in a scandal-ridden cabinet and whose record as environment minister was condemned by environmentalists and the environment commissioner. […]
Dear editor: Hi. We’d like to thank Mrs. Plumridge for giving us a tour of the Fort Frances Times. We learned a lot of things about what it takes to make a newspaper. We especially enjoyed meeting the staff, watching the big machines operate, and checking out the cool computers. […]
Dear editor: Re: The assertion that I owe taxes to Reef Point Road. I am not on your road. For a few glorious days each summer, I occupy a roadless peninsula—a virtual island in the once gin-clear waters of Rainy Lake. I pay $450 a season to a proper Canadian […]
Dear editor: About mid-June, my spouse was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the adrenal gland and lungs. Her family doctor in Thunder Bay had not given her a complete physical examination for three years—no CT scan, MRI, or X-ray. A more thorough blood test would have indicated the adrenal gland […]
Dear Mr. Editor: There is a lot of talk these days about “global warming” or the updated term “climate change.” The “global warming” myth started around 40 years ago as a “Cold War” propaganda. The Soviets claimed the rocket exhaust from the big Saturn V rocket would “punch a hole […]
Dear sir: The big concern some have over uninspected, locally-grown, and butchered meat hanging with government-inspected meat is not a big issue. This has been going on for years! Really now, let’s think back, as far back as you can remember, just how long has this been going on? I’m […]
Dear editor: In response to the recent “landslide” election in Fort Frances, I would like to commend Mr. Onichuk on his three years as mayor. I believe he gave it his all, not only of himself, but all the time spent away from his own life, his family, and the […]
Dear editor: I’m writing about the problem we are having with the government in regards to beef that is inspected and uninspected. It was pointed out by another writer that wild meat, for some reason, seems to be exempt from inspection policies. We do not know what the deer, the […]
To the editor: My name is Edith Jacqueline Agnes Aungiers Rawlins, born to Salvation Army parents in Halifax, N.S. two or three years before the Great Depression. My parents came from Glasgow and from Middlesboro, Yorkshire. I was with five siblings, in the Salvation Army, in Truro, where we learned […]
Dear editor: If you don’t think your donation of blood makes a difference, please read this. I recently have undergone treatment for cancer and felt that because I have been a blood donor for several years, it was my duty to inform the blood donor clinic of this in case […]
