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Nuke panic attack

Well done, NOW. I congratulate you on living up to the North American media benchmark in propagating fear and insecurity with your coverage of the recent nuclear disaster in Japan (NOW, March 17-23).

I have zero vested interest in nuclear energy and am a plain-Jane citizen of Canada who would simply love to read some news that, god forbid, verges on the positive or maybe at least is simply informative. I will now spend the rest of the day at home trying to “imagine” the various industry/natural/man-made ways of being flung into oblivion.

Ewelina Haratym

Toronto

Lights on nuclear

Regarding at risk and in denial (NOW, March 17-23). They say we only build a traffic light if enough people die at an intersection.

Are humans condemned to this sick logic forever? How many more tragedies before we rise up and demand an end to nuclear energy? Time to free ourselves of dangerous technologies and instead embrace those, like wind and solar power, that are inherently safe.

Gideon Forman

Executive Director

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

Toronto

Wind power blowing

Germany and France have decided that their nuclear power growth is not going further. The cost is way too high in terms of the worst-case scenario. Not only is nuclear the most costly to build and maintain, but the price of something going wrong is also beyond any country’s budget.

Our money should now be invested in wind turbines of all sizes: for skyscrapers, for street-light standards and for huge farms. Wind is renewable, wind is free, and the winds are getting stronger.

But most important of all, a damaged windmill doesn’t melt down and fatally poison air, water, people, animals and plants. There is no recovery from that.

Barbara Klunder

Toronto

Garbage on T.O.’s landfills

I am writing in regard to Toronto’s Ticking Landfills (NOW, March 17-23). It’s not a new phenomenon that citizens have to police and be wary of governing elites.

However, I find it very disturbing that Mayor Rob Ford and city council can continually make flat-out fictitious claims without any support. A line in your article: “City staff say we shouldn’t be worried, even while reserve funds to maintain the sites have been emptied in Rob Ford’s budget juggling.” Does the city really think if they tell their citizens a circle is a square, we will believe them?

M. Harding

Toronto

Fanny spanking

Regarding Steven Davey’s review of Fanny Chadwick’s (NOW, March 17-23). It has been a while since I read such a bold and horrific review of a newly opened restaurant!

It’s funny how people can have completely different experiences, and, unfortunately, one bad experience can result in such a negative implication for a newly opened restaurant in a lovely downtown neighbourhood.

I personally have been to Fanny Chadwick’s three or four times. I found the service extremely nice.

It is true Fanny Chadwick’s did not anticipate such a huge presence from diners hours after it opened. We saw the lineups outside on the weekend. Give Fanny a break. Honestly, the crowds of people waiting at the door prove your review wrong.

Maher Alami

Toronto

Simple-minded socialism

I have read few articles in any publication more offensive than Michael Hollett’s Stop The War On Public Services diatribe (NOW, March 17-23).

Wise people acknowledge the fact that to understand any issue, you must be able to appreciate many different perspectives. You need not agree with one’s opinion, but in order to advance intellectual discourse, we must try to understand why other positions have value.

Hollett has done a great disservice to socialists. He is entitled to his opinion, and many will find merit at least in the underlying message.

But to call those of us with whom he does not agree “simple-minded” displays his incredible arrogance and, I am sorry to say, ignorance. NOW Magazine should encourage intelligent debate regardless of ideology. Name-calling and gross generalizations only serve to question the legitimacy of his position.

Conor D. O’Hare

Toronto

Joke’s on Japan

Are jokes about Japan’s tragedy tasteless – or, as Gilbert Gottfried believes – comic relief (NOW Daily, March 17)? This latest Gottfried-related stir reminds me of how he tried to crack 9/11 jokes when it was still too soon. People booed. Then he started on Aristocrats jokes. I’m a bit hesitant to jump and say he’s a terrible person, even if what he said is disgusting.

Paolo Miguel Kagaoan

Toronto

NOW archives take us back

I cannot thank you enough for the new NOW archives feature. I had been searching for the article on the Finnish group Värttinä from 15 years ago, and found it in seconds. The article took me back to the first Toronto appearance by my favourite Finnish band and the start of a love affair with Finnish music that changed my life.

Craig Rowland

Mississauga

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