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The accounting professional in me questions how the forecasted budget plan surplus of $11.16 million was gotten to. Most likely it is the “amount” of pluses and minuses. What are they? Are we not, as tax-paying people, entitled to be offered with this information? Rather we exist with a great deal of gibberish.
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Andrew Lumsden, Vanier
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Possibly it’s time to leave the street ‘name’ video game
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How regrettable is it that individuals are required to reside on an Ottawa street rather mistakenly called after the future and now absolutely despicable president?
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And after that there is our city enabling streets called after genuinely admirable individuals go to hell. This holds true with Frank Bender Street here in Orléans. The really ghastly shape this road remains in at Innes Road in no other way shows the outstanding civic-minded individual I as soon as understood in my buddy Frank Bender.
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Considered that we can not forecast the future, and considered that we do not care to keep the facilities we call to honour genuinely excellent individuals, it may be best to leave the video game as far as calling streets after individuals of note.
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Let us rather call things after universal excellent intents and qualities.
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It’s not “rocket surgical treatment” to honour these individuals of note in much better, less long-term methods than in concrete and asphalt.
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Thomas Brawn, Orléans
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Took a hazardous drive in the rain on Boundary Road
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I just recently took Boundary Road from the 417 en path to my Osgoode home. The brand-new paving is valued, however holy cow does the brand-new black pavement absorb the headlight beams.
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The rain was boiling down in gushes and it was difficult to select the centre stripe, and there are no painted and reflectorized shoulder lines.
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Super unsafe, and the glare of approaching headlights intensified the circumstance. It’s just a matter of time before there is a severe crash on that stretch! Six-and-a-half hours of our drive home from Nova Scotia remained in the rain, however that last half-hour was hellish.
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Eric Stewart, Ottawa
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Could local prospects deal with the pee issue?
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As moms and dads and grandparents, we genuinely enjoyed this summertime taking the kids to play grounds and splash parks. There is, nevertheless, one facilities doing not have.
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What occurs when the kid states, “I need to go pee. I need to go for No. 2?” Not everybody lives throughout the street, and lots of drive to these places. The ask is not to build toilets, however possibly have portable toilets on place.
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I am particular all moms and dads and grandparents have actually experienced this difficulty. Possibly the mayoral and councillor prospects can offer some choices as we approach the community elections.
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José Semrau, Ottawa
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I’m on a stringent non-American diet plan
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It is something for the Canadian federal government to enforce tactical counter-tariffs and import constraints on the U.S.A. throughout the present dispute in order to secure Canadian worths and interests, which is quite valued.
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Beyond that, I have actually personally taken matters into my own hands, and I motivate other Canadians to do the very same. There will definitely be no travel to the U.S. while the dispute lasts. I will likewise prevent all U.S. items for which comparable ideal Canadian items or items coming from nations aside from the U.S. are offered.
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As a basic case in point, amongst groceries, I have actually replaced “Sunny Fruit Sultana Raisins”, which come from Turkey, for California raisins– and they are outstanding!
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While this might need some modifications to our consuming or other practices, so be it. If there is a cost to pay in the short-term, let us pay it if it causes long-lasting gain.
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Let us be genuinely Canadian!
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Gunter Rochow, Cumberland
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