Letters: May 5, 2023
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Knew they’d cave
You knew Mr. Freeze’s government would cave to the obscene demands from PSAC. Letting them picket for a few days allowed “Mighty Mona” to look tough in negotiations with the union. The government originally offered 9% (over three years) and the union wanted 13.5, and they settled for 12.6 (over four years), along with several concessions, including a $2,500 lump-sum payment for bargaining unit members. Gee, I wonder who won that one? When management is not concerned about the purse strings, this is what transpires.
Stephen Flanagan
Not to be too glass-half-full, but it could have been worse. Couldn’t it?
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Gallavanting and spending
Let’s face it, Justin Trudeau doesn’t care one iota what the rest of us peons in this country think about his gallivanting around the world. He’s just going to travel where he wants and spend taxpayers’ money recklessly. Despite his many conflicts of interest and breaches of trust, he knows he can get away with it. He’s the “Teflon don” of Canada.
Molley Kens
Trudeau is oblivious, at best.
Taking offence
Ostensibly, the practice of woke-washing classic novels (Roald Dahl, Agatha Christie) by postmodern-era publishing houses is for the purpose of keeping works “relevant and appealing” to today’s audiences. But I suspect that is not the real motivation for such changes. It is instead a sort of piracy; a “latching on”; a parasitic feeding on the creative works of real artists by politically correct commissars (with enough cowardice to try this only on authors who are dead). It is the narcissism of clerks, licking their fingers as they remove a phrase here, replace a word there, saying, “See, I did that! Agatha Christie wrote it, but I fixed it; I made it better!” The publishing house itself benefits under the same grandiosity. “We had our people make Roald Dahl acceptable. We made his flawed stories good!” The conceit required for the task is equal to a signboard painter deciding to touch up the Mona Lisa by dabbing a Nike swoosh on her frock and brushing a Dylan Mulvaney-ish maniacal grin over her smile, you know, to make her less offensive.
Joe Conway
Agreed: It is madness to make these sorts of edits. There is context for nearly everything and people can decide themselves.
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