Letter to the editor: Baines and the Sun deliver a gift

Article content

BAINES DELIVERS PRESENT

Article content

Re: Faith, love & family; There’s much more to Travis Hamonic than being a hockey player, and it’s all spelled out by the tattoos on his arms, Dec. 24

Article content

I got my Christmas present at about 9 a.m. Monday at a Barrhaven Starbucks reading Tim Baines’s article on Ottawa Senators defenceman Travis Hamonic.

Faith, family and friends. Hamonic certainly has his life and priorities in order.

And all put together by one of the best sports writers in the business, Tim Baines.

Thanks again, Tim, and the Ottawa Sun.

DOUG MILLER
MANOTICK

GUILBEAULT ‘OUTDOES’ HIMSELF

Re: GOLDSTEIN: Guilbeault serves up horse manure for Christmas, online, Dec. 23

In one of the most ridiculous statements he has made yet, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said gas-powered vehicles are like horses and buggies were about a century ago. Guilbeault keeps stubbornly pushing electric vehicles that most Canadians do not want and cannot afford, even with his government’s subsidies.

Article content

Polls show that the Trudeau-Guilbeault costly new green deal is not taxpayers’ priority in these tough economic times. We are seeing the real problem of making a radical former tree-hugging environmentalist into the environment minister.

LARRY COMEAU
OTTAWA

‘RAPIDLY’ REPULSED?

As Canada’s housing market becomes increasingly precarious, the federal government has finally decided to take action. After being late to the party in realizing that we have a housing crisis, the Liberals have now responded with some powerful-sounding rhetoric.

They have recently introduced the “Housing Accelerator Fund” and the “Rapid Housing Initiative.”

If you are not “rapidly” repulsed by this pathetic pandering, and can’t help “accelerate” the demise of this increasingly dangerous government, we can no longer be friends.

Article content

Sorry, but you just need to know.

AL WILLEY
EDMONTON

NO SENS SLUSH FUND

The Ottawa Senators want to move to fancy new digs, probably on LeBreton Flats, to be closer to the city core, the bars and the “Streetcar to Nowhere” when it actually runs.

This is all just peachy keen, but there should be absolutely no cash from City Hall to help build such a venture.

The team owner, Michael Andlauer, is a billionaire and his partners in this venture group are also in the same financial category or mighty close. Let private interests deal with this project, and, if they balk, then they can stay in Kanata.

STEPHEN FLANAGAN
OTTAWA

Article content