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TEACHABLE RECYCLING MOMENT

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Re: ‘Boomerang lunches’ on the menu after blue box recycling in schools cancelled, online, Aug. 26

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Singing the blues. Isn’t this what is called a “teachable moment”?

Pick up after yourself. You are responsible for your own garbage. Don’t like your lunch sandwich? Bring it back home. Like the cafeteria plastic containers/utensils? Change to reusable.

Or, how about a compost pit in the schoolyard for bio waste? Fun, huh? Bag and sell your black gold, and use the cash for more student activities.

Isn’t recycling great when you do it yourself instead of paying someone to do it for you? Ha!

DYAN CROSS

OTTAWA

INTRUDER? NO RULES

Re: Doug Ford says ‘something is broken’ after Ontario man charged with assaulting armed home intruder, online, Aug. 20; and Self-defence law needs major reforms, editorial, Aug. 22

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So let me try to get this logic straight: Someone breaks into my house, attacking the sanctity of my home and terrorizing my family, and it’s expected that, if I am able to gain the upper hand in a physical confrontation, I am to show this lowlife degenerate his due restraint?

Am I to interview him and ask him what his intentions are (though they seem pretty obvious to me already) before I determine the level of my defence? Should I take his vital signs once I have gained advantage, just so as not to overdo anything in my adrenalin-driven fear and quest for survival?

Anyone who makes these ridiculous, pathetic laws has obviously never been in a physical confrontation with another human being. You don’t just fight and then continually check in with your opponent to see if he’s doing OK. Am I supposed to trust him when he says “uncle” and let him up? My responsibility to myself and my family is to ensure that he is subdued and stays subdued until the police arrive. If I overdo it, that’s his problem, not mine.

My goodness, we’ve become so pathetic when we can’t even defend what’s ours without worrying about the consequences. We are so weak under this Liberal regime.

These criminals don’t play by any rules; why should I, if I’m defending my property and my family?

BRIAN JOYNT

OTTAWA

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