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Shoemaker doesn’t support use of special powers to clear encampments, force treatment
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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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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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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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'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 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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'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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Duty free shops in 'a tough spot' amid ongoing trade war
SooToday 14Bewhite … Trump himself only cast one vote!!!
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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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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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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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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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Ontario doctors are about to get a healthy pay raise
SooToday 20Dollar to a donut, if you dropped the deadweight bureaucrats and pared back administration to realistic levels it would more than cover this expense and more but sadly, as long as it’s a government run system there’s no remedy and examples of similar systems to ours in an equal mess are proof. We Have to take individual responsibility instead of sitting back, comfortably expecting our lives to be run by the government, then complaining of high taxes and poor to negligible services.
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Who should run downtown: business people or city bureaucrats?
SooToday 28When you say “run downtown”, are you referring to more and more different types of experimentation by one group over another with our tax dollars? They’ve done enough with the public’s money. Maybe the market should dictate what happens for a while, maybe rents would then have to be lowered to entice small businesses to move in …. But, until the drug problem is cleaned up, downtown is a lost cause, many business owners keep their doors locked and people are avoiding the area.
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The million-dollar plan to catch speeding Saultites
SooToday 25Do some research first … aren’t intersections the location of most accidents and injuries?Look into the cause of accidents and pedestrian injuries over the past 5 years and I’d expect failure to even slowdown , let alone stop for stop signs, failure to come to a stop before right hand turns is by far the biggest problem. I’ve seen vehicles approach stop signs to turn right, drivers looking to the left for traffic and almost striking pedestrians coming from the right, failure to take the time to stop and look both ways, the culprit.
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How do you recruit medical staff to small-town Ontario? 'Bag of money up front'
SooToday 9“Current Provincial Government to blame, really?” We can go back to when we copied Britains healthcare system which was then a real mess, exhibiting the same problems we ‘re facing today and every election the debate thereafter has been “how can we fix it” with the Liberals having had ample opportunities. BC, a bastion for the leftist NDP, hasn’t been able to do anything….. it’s government run system folks, don’t expect any miracles here.“Such systems act like black holes in the economic universe … simultaneously chewing up resources and shrinking in terms of production.” quote from Dr Gammon who studied Britains system in the 1960’s.Volunteers are doing increasingly more work and charities contributing more but wait lines are increasing and hospital rooms shuttered … wake up peopleTom Brason
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'Not a cash grab’: City talks speed cameras at open house
SooToday 10Good question, there’s the posted speed and the accepted speed?City hall is full of contradictions.City councillors voted down a request to apply for an increase in the speed limit on 17 … strange when it’s guaranteed that not one of them adheres to the current limit.
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Survey says! Name something local employers can do to find more workers
SooToday 8They could Lobby various forms of government to decrease the incentives ‘not to work’.
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