Letters to the Editor, Aug. 15


Watching Bianca Andreescu compete in the Rogers Cup could only make you admire her ability and her tenacity. Seeing her after the final against Serena Williams, one can feel nothing but pride for the way she conducted herself with Serena, the fans and the media. What a wonderful athlete and person she is!

Robin Kilroy

(She truly is and we cannot be more proud of her)


“Mayor John Tory released a statement reaffirming his position on banning handguns, which he said he believes would address gun violence in the city.” Here is my proposal as a legal handgun owner: Let the government ban private ownership of handguns in Canada. The government will buy them back from us and put them in storage for one year. If at the end of that year gun violence has come to a complete stop, then destroy the guns. If, however, after that year there has not been a desirable drop in gun violence, the guns will be returned and all of the politicians who support gun bans will wilfully resign from politics, never to return.

Jim Murphy
Retired Toronto Police Service
Niagara on the Lake

(Good idea)


Re “Senseless tragedy” (Joe Warmington, Aug. 13): Should it be illegal to pass on the right? My answer is no unless we start educating drivers on proper lane driving. I actually pass in the right lane often. Why, because slow drivers take up the centre lane, you know, the safe lane. I watch people get on the QEW with no one in the right lane and they go right to the middle lane. Trucks have no choice but to pass on the right. I sometimes travel my entire trip in the right lane cause it’s not used. I got my driver’s licence at 16 when we mainly had two lanes and haven’t taken another test in 40 years and rules have changed. Drivers have to learn that if they are not passing, get in the right lane so trucks can pass. Many don’t understand that transports can’t use the far left lane. So if you plan to make it illegal to pass on the right, then make it illegal to drive slower than average traffic in the middle lane(s). There should be a standard test every 10 years when renewing your licence to learn about new rules and laws.

Jacques Boulianne
St. Catharines

(No one is proposing to make it illegal on the right, but tragedies will always bring to light uncomfortable conversations about traffic)


Well, Mayor Quimby, you certainly know how to address all of what ails Toronto. From banning handguns, used by gangsters who already are banned from ownership out on bail or on probation, to allowing junkies to terrorize neighbourhoods, to putting the city in gridlock, to pandering to all that sing the socialist song. Oh, we haven’t forgotten you, Chief Wiggum. Standing tall, lecturing all on the safety of Toronto, while turning a blind eye to the violence and those that really run the city from the shadows. My apologies if I’ve offended anyone from Springfield.

Bill Vernon

(That was quite clever)

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