YOU SAID IT: Not happening, Leafs fans

NOT HAPPENING, LEAFS FANS

For all those diehard Toronto Maple Leafs fans hoping Connor McDavid will sign with them at the end of his Edmonton Oilers contract, you can be sure Connor noticed Mitch Marner left the Maple Leafs and Toronto for safety reasons for Las Vegas!

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Alberta is paradise compared to the Rat Race of Southern Ontario. Connor will be re-signing in Edmonton, enjoying his wonderfully glorious life here.

By the way, Alberta is also the only province in Canada that is literally rat-free.

CHRIS ROBERTSON
STONY PLAIN, ALTA.

PRAYER SHOULD BE PRIVATE

Re: Quebec planning ban on prayer in public, Aug. 29

To me, this is a no-brainer, and this legislation should be nationwide. In my mind, praying in the streets is being used to intimidate others. Prayer belongs in the home or in one’s place of worship and not in public.

Streets are being blocked (oh, the outrage about that during the convoy protest), and this is not a one-off as it’s being done everywhere.

While Quebec’s “advisory board” recommends that municipalities deal with it, that won’t work. All it would take is for religious communities to move to an area, vote their own in, then change the laws to suit them.

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Ban it, period.

SANDY JOHNSTON
GREELY

PRAYING FOR IT

The Quebec government is preparing to ban prayer in public places, such as street prayer. Let’s pray this is true!

TERRY TOLL
CAMPBELL’S BAY, QUE.

CITY’S LOST BEAUTY

Call me crazy, but has Ottawa’s mayor ever considered raising revenue through means other than yet another tax increase? How about actually using what is already law? There is a fine for littering or graffiti.

This city is no longer a beautiful place to visit. Once-beautiful streets and avenues have holes drilled into them to put up traffic-calming posts. And that, of course, leads to winter damage. Expansion and contraction lead to cracks and potholes. The weeds fill every crevice. It’s sad.

ANDY MURPHY
OTTAWA

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