Cyberspace is no place to be private
The Privacy Commissioner has raised valid concerns about the way Facebook protects – or fails to protect – users' privacy. But people who don't want strangers to know the intimate details of their lives should think twice about posting those tidbits online in the first placeTrashing our standard of living
Ben Dachis correctly points out that allowing private companies to compete with public unions for garbage collection in Toronto will lower costs to the consumer (Set The Garbage Hostages Free – July 18). Those efficiencies will be achieved by forcing union employees to take wage cuts in order to compete, in the race to the bottom, with private firms.
To reduce the risk of annoying labour unrest all we need to do is take wages and benefits away from a few thousand people. Let’s not stop with the city workers, though; for every service we privatize, and every union we bust, we can rid ourselves of additional annoyances. The only drawback is the gradual erosion of our collective standard of living.
Michael Stacey, Toronto
Putting to rest fear of `a home,' July 18
Because of family considerations, I have toured a number of retirement homes and long-term care facilities. I can say unequivocally that this boomer will not be going into an institution of any kind if/when I can no longer take care of myself.
There is a time to die. From my observations, many people in long-term care are past this time and alive only because modern medicine has prolonged their lives unnaturally. Long-term care represents warehousing of the old and infirm, end of story. No amount of hat making or flower planting changes that reality.
What really should be happening now are honest, earnest discussions around aging in place with supports from the community and the option of legal assisted suicide if the prognosis is grim or the pain of living becomes too great.
Catherine MacInnes, Toronto
Security personnel at BMO stadium for the game between Toronto FC and Houston spent more effort looking for smuggled beer than they normally spend looking for bombs and guns. If there's anything about Toronto that isn't ridiculous, please headline it.
C.R. (Ray) Luft, Mississauga
New Visa Restrictions
How much money does a refugee gets per month? $ 2,200.00/month. How much does a CDN taxpayer working all his life gets? The average is $1,700.00/month . Now, do I think we have enough refugees? Yes
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