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VIDEO: Doug Ford threatened to beat up a shoplifter — should you do the same?
88You’ve got my vote, those of us turning a blind eye must accept the fact that we’re maybe at the root of the problem. Maybe if we all stood up, then maybe it’ll have an affect right through to our weak kneed justice system.
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Shoemaker doesn’t support use of special powers to clear encampments, force treatment
SooToday 70Seems like we’ve people in jobs beyond their capacity. They’re twiddling their fingers while people are dying and the citizens safety in jeopardy while their neighborhoods are being sudjected to violence and theft.You say these people aren’t capable of making proper decisions but you say they have to want treatment, that they can’t go back on the street afterwards.You say the people in encampments have been banned from shelters because they’ll abuse others but you say it’s alright for those people to set up tent cities in our neighborhoods.We citizens have rights too, so if you can’t ensure our rights are being defended also, step aside, find other employment … sorry!
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City council to consider review of Downtown Association
SooToday 54Walmart & Home Depot were downsized because of them, they were petty enough to fight to prevent a roadway connecting the 2 parking lots. We don’t need umpteen buses leaving their routes to all converge on a ‘downtown’ depot to satisfy the association.The city just has to stop pandering to them … period. We’re not back in the 1940’s, things are changing.
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Animal rescue group repossesses Sudbury family’s cat after he was caught outside
SooToday 51Dogs are not allowed to roam, neither are cats, get used to it. Cats are natural predators and in my area have destroyed bird nests including the young babies, one attacked a mother duck and killed all her ducklings for the sake of killing.Moreover, if you truly love your cat, you would keep it inside because cats are a major food source for urban coyotes and go missing regularly as pleas on Facebook and posters on poles indicate, it could just as easily have been dead.Tom Brason
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Animal rescue group repossesses Sudbury family’s cat after he was caught outside
SooToday 43How traumatic would it have been to see their cat being carried off by a coyote which is a regular occurrence… they’re flipping the coin each time they let their cat out to roam.
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VIDEO: Should the city spend millions to buy the old hospital?
SooToday 54Agree, or the current owner will soon have to drop the price and the market will take care of itself.The less bureaucrats have to do with my money, the better. People aren’t as wise spending other peoples money as they would be if it was their own, that’s a fact.
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City council slams brakes on Kinach’s need for speed
SooToday 39Dollar to a donut that no one on council who voted down a speed increase drives the current set speed limit or close to it. Whew, they voted it down so all traffic will continue at 90 kph, what a relief … get real folks, get your heads out of the sand.
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Report: Ontario cannibalizing public health dollars to fund private clinics
SooToday 15Public health simply isn’t working in its current state and something has to be done and fast. The hospital is full of volunteers and is funded to a great deal thru lotteries and donations but is still in deep trouble.We depend on private to provide our food, build our homes, build our cars and everything else around us but somehow there is an intense fear of private when it comes to an x-ray or ultrasound.Maybe a small injection of private is what we need.
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Lame-duck Downtown Association promises 'collaborative' breakup with city
SooToday 42I’ve a subscription to newspapers..com and went back into old Sault star articles and it’s unbelievable how much the downtown association has held back progress in this city. For one thing, Walmart and Home Depot were made to reduce their sizes and couldn’t have access between their parking lots at one time because the city council let them have their way. And why do city buses all have to congregate downtown like they did when everything was on Queen St.? How much time and fuel is wasted while passengers, taken off the route and wasting their time sit waiting? I’m a history buff and love the historic downtown areas of cities and maybe if the rent is manageable, small businesses suitable for that location will start moving in .
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'Not a cash grab’: City talks speed cameras at open house
SooToday 30I was there, it’s nothing but a cash grab and a dumb idea. They admitted the majority of accidents and safety issues are at intersections which their speed cameras won’t affect. They admitted a major contributor was the use of cell phones which they haven’t enforced.Their paraphernalia they had installed on Queen and Black road an example of ineptness and lack of concern about the public’s monies. It’s gone now, wouldn’t have lasted in the winter, life goes on and what did it prove?Tom Brason
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'It's distasteful': Photos of Toronto Sun 'Sunshine Girls' are being rerun again and again
SooToday 39I’d bet that Sootoday could find a much better topic to bait this comment section without much effort, maybe discuss if the black flies are out yet.
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'Not a cash grab’: City talks speed cameras at open house
SooToday 22Yup, It’s all about a deterrent across the board … which this isn’t by any stretch of the imagination, boils down to a cash grab.
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American flag will stay up at city hall – for now
SooToday 28Trump is a dumb, brutal, arrogant man who views himself a ruthless dictator styled after Hitler and the only people who will have a chance of getting rid of him are the Americans themselves, through disgust for the treatment of their allies and love of Putin or because of the pain from the economic disasters brought on by his tariffs and we need them on our side, so consider that as a factor.Tom Brason
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VIDEO: Ban speed cameras? Not so fast, protesters tell Doug Ford
33The main cause of accidents is use of hand held devices and the main location of accidents is at intersections. We’ve got a bunch of people with one thing on their minds without any reasoning.If you really want to cut down on accidents …Make an attempt to curb handheld devices while driving and monitor intersections
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Duty free shops in 'a tough spot' amid ongoing trade war
SooToday 14Bewhite … Trump himself only cast one vote!!!
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Consultant proposes getting rid of St. Marys River Drive
SooToday 33Love to see this, on paper it looks great but consider who is going to frequent the shops frequently enough to make it all viable when you consider our seasons. The city and the downtown association have already poured tax dollars, over and over into trying unsuccessfully to make Queen St into a unique Mecca of small shops to attract locals and tourists and now we see this utopian vision. Last week it was a number of floating swimming pools along a waterfront of a city which doesn’t even start up their splash pads until mid June for a 3 month operation…then it’s freeze with the addition expenses of taking it out and storage. Heck, you won’t even allow hotdog vendors along this stretch at present so go figure! Maybe if you had, they might have given you some insight here.These are great ideas if only we had far better seasons and were close enough to larger hubs for a more sustainable tourism which is critical … where’s the viability study?Tom Brason
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Local low-income seniors eligible for free dental care
SooToday 15Sooo true, we Canadians complain over and over about being taxed to the hilt but keep referring to our deteriorating healthcare as being free and refuse any suggestions to fix it because the leftists have made private into a dirty word.
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Doug Ford says tariffs could be waived on cars with over 50% U.S. parts
29The federal government is the one which should have stood up for us and it was the federal government which said they’d do the talking for Canada, not a premier
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Animal rescue group repossesses Sudbury family’s cat after he was caught outside
SooToday 29Coach37, this cat didn’t escape … the owners opened the door for it, knowing full and well they were taking a chance.
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Sault Police Service creates web page for protesters
SooToday 15REALLY! Is this needed one iota or is it just another small strand to that ever expanding ball of bureaucratic yarn that becomes overwhelming and costly over time?
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