Letters to the editor: May 13: ‘I want Canada … to lead the world now in an overdue transition away from burning and producing fossil fuels.’ Should Canada be an oil superpower? Plus other letters to the editor & More News Here

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Not like the other

Re One And The Same (Letters, May 12): A letter-writer was at a loss to reply to her granddaughter’s query: “Are the people who oppose the right to choose an abortion the same people who protest vaccine and mask mandates?” My reply: It’s a two-sided state of affairs.

The opposing perspective is that many individuals who assist the proper to select an abortion don’t want individuals to have the proper to select towards vaccinations and masks mandates.

John Budreski Vancouver

Blast from the previous

Re Ontario’s Lecce Blasted For ‘Slave Auction’ In University (May 12): I attended college just a few a long time earlier than Ontario PC candidate Stephen Lecce, in a metropolis considerably extra numerous than London, Ont. Even then, white fraternities weren’t often known as hotbeds of racial or historic sensitivity.

Perhaps fraternity pledges ought to be required to bear fairness and variety coaching earlier than changing into full members. I feel Mr. Lecce’s apology is honest and he mustn’t be punished for his previous actions.

We are presently very aware of appropriation. Fraternities ought to be allowed to acceptable the Greek alphabet, however not all facets of the antebellum South.

Bruce Couchman Ottawa

Déjà vu

Re All Quebeckers Are Victims Of Bill 96′s Overreach (May 10): History repeats itself. In the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies, many bilingual and unilingual graduates moved out of Quebec. Now unilingual college students, each English and French, are wanting exterior of Quebec towards their future.

The National Assembly mustn’t bow to the Office Québécois de la langue française by giving them what would quantity to dictatorial powers.

Dale Horwitz Toronto

It’s the local weather

Re Glaciologists Alarmed By Ice loss Accelerated By Climate Change (May 9): I felt so annoyed studying this. It was like earnest scientists in life preservers, diligently measuring the water’s price of rising as the Titanic goes down. We understand it’s going to sink, and it’s going quick.

Therefore it adjustments completely nothing to waste sources and doc exact speeds. What there ought to actually be is decisive and efficient collective motion towards local weather change.

Brian Green Thunder Bay

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Re Hi, My Name Is Canada. I’m An Oil Superpower (Editorial, May 9): Canada is the solely G7 nation the place emissions have grown since the Paris Agreement, owing to oil sands progress, regardless of efforts to enhance efficiencies.

While other international locations decarbonize, ours is betting on know-how confirmed to be pricey and not very efficient in limiting upstream emissions. Is it any surprise why Canada has missed each emissions-reduction goal to date?

The federal authorities promised to cap emissions from oil and fuel. This is critically vital. Ultimately, we must always plan to transition solely to clear vitality.

Otherwise, I foresee extra missed emissions targets when there isn’t a time to lose.

Cheryl McNamara Toronto

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The manufacturing of oil for combustion is driving the world to the fringe of local weather – and societal – collapse. It ought to cease.

I discover The Globe and Mail’s argument – that Canada ought to proceed, and even increase, oil manufacturing as a result of there are consumers keen to burn it (and other international locations keen to produce it if we don’t) – to be morally repugnant. We don’t use the “well, others do bad things, too” argument with most other points, and it possible gained’t work effectively in explaining to younger individuals why we trashed their world.

I want Canada, this rich nation stuffed with ingenuity, creativity and compassion, to lead the world now in an overdue transition away from burning and producing fossil fuels. We mustn’t defer the humane and accountable path required of us just because others are failing to observe it, too.

Michael Polanyi Toronto

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Re Environmental Assessment Law Is Unconstitutional, Top Alberta Court Rules (May 11): An answer to the constitutional standing of the federal Impact Assessment Act would be a return to the construction of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, prior to the Harper authorities’s adoption of Bill C-38 in 2012.

That model of the act was constantly discovered by the courts to present a agency constitutional foundation for the conduct of federal environmental assessments the place initiatives had been on federal lands, concerned federal funding or proponents, or required specified federal statutory approvals, equivalent to these discovered beneath the Fisheries Act and former Navigable Waters Protection Act.

Mark Winfield Co-chair, Sustainable Energy Initiative, school of environmental and city change, York University; Toronto

Overdoing it

Re Blackstone Sets Targets On Canadian Real Estate (Report on Business, May 9): Why is Blackstone or any other hefty investor allowed to purchase practically limitless residential properties? Would any smart society open up the meals provide, drinkable water or other requirements to be purchased and managed for revenue?

If rich traders can discover a method to put a meter between daylight and the planet, they might.

Bill Bousada Carleton Place, Ont.

Rate your service

Re The Wireless Business Needs Four Players (Editorial, May 10): I’ve been attempting to have my Rogers landline cancelled for some months now. It’s nonetheless not achieved, though the firm despatched me a message saying it was so, then requested what I considered the service.

One factor Rogers and Shaw appear to have in widespread: If one is late making a fee, they’re in contact instantly. In deep, deep desperation, I ask that maybe some overseas competitors wakes these corporations up.

Patrick Reid Toronto

Mind’s eye

Re Webb Telescope Captures Sharpest-ever Views Of Universe In ‘Extraordinary Milestone’ (May 10): We people are mere specks on a small planet in an enormous photo voltaic system in an immense galaxy, amongst numerous others in an area of unimaginably huge proportions.

Yet our minds roam the universe. We probe the submicroscopic depths of atoms. We monitor the wanderings of the continents beneath our ft.

Our ingenious units attain out to our nearest neighbours, from nice planets to tiny comets. We peer out billions of light-years into area to witness the evolving cosmos. Now we’re poised to look away and again to a time when the early stars and galaxies beamed out their first mild.

These accomplishments of motive and creativeness are a testomony to our insatiable curiosity. Most have come in a relative blink of an eye in the scope of human historical past.

Just think about what the future will convey.

Douglas Campbell Victoria

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