BE PROUD CANADA
The Canadian men’s soccer team should hold their heads up high, despite the fact that they lost to Team Belgium. They outplayed them and were clearly the better team from the first minute of play. I don’t think it was even close. I am so proud of Team Canada! As we all should be!
Mike Duckworth
(We are all looking forward to an exciting match against Croatia on Sunday)
THANK YOU BÖRJE
Your front page (Nov. 25) of Börje Salming was exceptional: A great man, all heart, and both the pride of Sweden and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Len Fortune
Oakville
(Condolences to his family, and we will forever be grateful for all that he did here with the Leafs)
COP27 WAS A SUCCESS
Re “COP27 deal delivers landmark on ‘loss and damage,’ but little else” (Reuters, Nov. 20): I agree that COP27 delivered a landmark decision on ‘loss and damage,’ but I disagree that it offered little else. It’s not the COP sessions that change the world. It’s the actual work that goes on after governments have made those promises. COP27 heard calls to transform the global financial system to deliver funding to help countries cut their carbon emissions, and adapt their economies to the changes caused by global warming. Calls to reform the financial system, including the IMF and World Bank, came from many including Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados. The Bridgetown Initiative contains five specific proposals that individually are achievable within 18 months and collectively will meaningfully redraw the global financial system to better respond to the climate and development crises. The ‘Initiative’ began from informal discussions initially hosted by Mottley in Bridgetown, Barbados. These five proposals resonate with the COP Presidency’s Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance report. Change is coming. The key is to follow the money.
Cathy Orlando
Director of Programs at Citizens’ Climate International
(This is all very useful information, but the point remains the same – year after year, conference after conference, the same pronunciations are always agreed upon yet little is done)
DIVERSE VOTER BASE
Re “Come on, Ontario” (Letters to the Editor, Nov. 25): Ontario is a very diverse province. People vote across the total spectrum from far left to far right. Many are strong union supporters and many have no use for unions. The same applies to climate change and deniers, gun control, abortion, and on and on. To have an Albertan imply that Ontarians are all the same is insulting and ignorant.
Rai Remmel
(Perhaps they should have singled out Toronto)
NO HONESTY
I think Canada hasn’t had an honest, ethical, direct witness response at an inquiry or committee hearing from any Liberal since we heard from Jody Wilson Raybould — and we know what happened to her. The spin, spin, spin continues.
Steve Peck
Brampton
(It is dizzying)
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