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Exercise your right to vote

October 22, 2014   ·   0 Comments

In most municipal elections the choices put forward to the voters are usually pretty clear.

For instance in Orangeville the choice for Mayor is between both  Mayor Rob Adams and Councillor Jeremy Williams.

The choice for Deputy Mayor is a little more difficult because it is between the incumbent Warren Maycock and two challengers. Kim Reid and Sandy Brown.

However the choices for the Councillors is extremely perplexing because there are 14 candidates vying for five positions on Council.

In my opinion in order to ensure that your chosen candidate or candidates have a greater chance of being elected you should only vote for them and not for their opponents just because you can select five candidates.

Having 14 candidates to choose from means that the votes will be spread out and there is a greater chance that your chosen candidate will miss the cut.

Ask yourself how you would feel if your first choice was not elected and another candidate made the cut that you had voted for just in order to fill out your ballot?

What really baffles me is the public’s concern regarding the expenditure of tax dollars at the municipal level but the candidates that are running to be our representative on the school board receives almost no scrutiny. Especially when the budget for the Upper Grand District School Board dwarfs local municipal budgets.

Whoever you want to represent you make your voice heard and exercise your right to vote on October 27.

Larry Rankin

Orangeville

 

Terrorism 101 – 

‘wise words’ 

Wonderfully wise words from Gwynne Dyer, London UK-based geopolitical observer. Cautious restraint is strategically more effective than our political grandstanding and reflexive dispatch of patch-work military ‘missions impossible.’

Why must we engage in such futile missions, except for “Conservative PR talking points,” at taxpayers’ expense?” S

imilar views are expressed in letters to the SATURDAY STAR, October 11/14 ,INSIGHT, p.7: “Into the fog of war again.”

Similar wise words are in Paul’s Letters to the Romans, Chapter 12 v.14-21.

This ought to be our motto in “foreign policy planning.” Such wisdom should be derigueur reading (introductory course, Terrorism 101) for the West’s geopolitical chess masters.

Forget Henry Kissinger’s passe’ realpolitik. It is incumbent upon us to remember our humanity: e.g. to do what it takes to build sustainable peace, and to save humankind from the tragic folly of endless war.

Fred Brailey

Orangeville

 

Harper ‘dangerous’?

What is it about cutting off your head and totally shutting down your freedoms that you don’t understand?

You apparently take freedom for granted. The wars of freedom and fascism were catalytic to the development of technical tools used in freedom and war. I am referring to ships, aircraft, communications, etc.

The very dangerous people who would separate you from your passive head should be dealt with, not ignored.

They are not negotiable. The technology I am referring to is wonderful in a peaceful world.

Unfortunately, the world is not peaceful, and if these insane fascists were to have control of our most fearsome technology, that we do not want to use (nukes, etc.), then we are in serious peril.

So should we resist?

Fight back now, and prevent the most horrific scenario?

Who is dangerous?

D. Carter,

Shelburne

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