YOU SAID IT: Grocery gouging

GROCERY GOUGING

Gone are the days when my late parents could buy 10 loaves of bread for a dollar and $15 filled a family of seven with food for a week.

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Today, grocery shopping is torture; prices seem to constantly rise while product size shrinks, and some liquid products seem watered down.

Whatever happened to coupons that offered shoppers a few cents off an item? Gone are the days when you could shop at a large, independently owned grocery store where the owner and staff knew their customers and tried to pass along real savings. Today, grocery shopping seems impersonal; stores are corporate-owned monstrosities and prices are constantly on the rise.

Is any consideration given to future generations and what they will pay for food? I won’t be surprised when one loaf of bread costs $10.

DON RUTTAN
COBOURG, ONT.

PATHETIC PIPELINE RESPONSE

Regarding the pipeline saga, when the Opposition Conservatives do their job by legitimately providing some transparency regarding the Liberals’ intentions and deception, what do the Liberals do? They brand it all as political theatre or a political stunt.

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As usual, I see much of the media, as well as the lefty pundits, go right along with the Liberal BS narratives. Watching the Liberals panic and try to weasel their way out of the fact that they’ve been caught gaslighting Canadians again was pathetic.

GISELE LAVICTOIRE
ORLÉANS

DESPERATELY NEED ABORTION RULES

I recently watched a short film entitled Undercover In Canada’s Late-Term Abortion Industry. I was rendered speechless. This film shone the bright light of day on this “barbaric practice.”

Our MPs should be ashamed that, by their silence, they are endorsing this heartbreaking practice. Governments and politicians haven’t the courage or the stomach to tackle the abortion issue.
We need to have a national referendum on the subject that asks clear questions that demand clear answers. We desperately need solid rules around abortion in Canada.

If politicians continue to be spineless, then allow the voters to set the rules, which is how it is supposed to be in a democracy.

BETTY-ANNE TREMBLAY
OTTAWA

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