YOU SAID IT: Smartphones, stupid us

SMARTPHONES, STUPID US

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I find it kind of sad to see how smartphones seem to be making people kind of stupid.

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A commercial on TV shows a young person relying on his phone for a lesson on how to change a baby’s diaper. Why bother using your common sense for solving things when you can just ask your phone?

I see more and more where people summoning their phones for the simplest things. Eventually people won’t be able to think for themselves.

I’m glad I learned to figure out things the old-fashioned way. Using my head.

GISELE LAVICTOIRE

ORLÉANS

AN NDP REPLAY

Re: Recent headlines about Davies saying budget support up to Carney after sharing NDP’s priorities

Canada finds itself in serious economic problems today partially because of Jagmeet Singh’s extracting his dental and pharmacare plans, plus other NDP priorities, for his undying support for the spend-happy Justin Trudeau government.

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So here we go again with the NDP, with only seven seats, now playing kingmaker with an ultimatum to Mark Carney demanding what it wants or else! Let’s face it, the NDP is in dire financial straits and remains without a leader, so it does not want an election, meaning this is just bluster. Because of that, Carney knows full well that NDP support for his budget is guaranteed.

Hopefully the voters who again put us in this situation will continue to enjoy more of what they have seen in the last decade.

LARRY COMEAU

OTTAWA

NOT A TAX GRAB? SURE

Regarding the speed camera issue, full disclosure, I’ve received two of these tickets over the last few years. The first one was for driving 54 km/h in a school zone on Meadowlands Drive during the “summer” when the camera was first installed.

Not a tax grab? Think again.

MIKE SHURTLIFF

KANATA

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