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Raccoon love makes hottest sex cover ever

Your Love And Sex Guide cover (NOW, February 12-18) is the best ever!! Two Toronto residents having sex.

Angela Zehr

Toronto


From Gary Freeman to Leonard Peltier

Reading Gary Freeman’s My Underground Railroad Out Of Extradition (NOW, February 12-18), I was reminded of another infamous extradition by Canada: that of American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier in 1976.

Peltier was extradited and then tried and convicted in North Dakota of killing two FBI agents in a trial full of holes and fabricated evidence. Amnesty International has raised serious concerns about the fairness and impartiality of the case.

Ted Turner

Toronto


Hear, hear for Sun News

Re Sun Sets On Sun News Network (NOW, February 13). I liked Sun News It did great coverage of areas of Canada outside Ontario. You just don’t get this on CBC or CTV. Sun also showed up the mainstream media, which does drink its own bathwater. I don’t care how few viewers there were, Canada needs diversity in its journalism. The demise of Sun is a step backwards those who are gleeful are afraid of opinions that differ from their own.

Brad Brzezinski

From nowtoronto.com


What of the influence of labour on NDP?

Re Who Owns Stephen Harper? (NOW, February 5-11). Why is it that people influencing our prime minister and the Conservative party are considered by some to be harmful to the Canadian political system while, for example, the influence of organized labour on the NDP is not? The transparency of this hypocrisy is obvious. Canada needs input from all segments of our society. If Linda McQuaig really wants to influence our Canadian system for the better, how about advocating for true Senate reform rather than emphasizing the difference between rich and poor? 

S. Cooper

Toronto


French Jews voting with their feet

Thanks to letter-writer Judith Deutsch for exercising her freedom of speech in Questioning Anti-Semitism (NOW, February 5-11). Now I shall exercise mine. First she claims that Operation Protective Edge was “Israel’s vicious war on Gaza,” when in reality it was Hamas terrorists (yes, terrorists, not militants) who were the instigators. With regards to France being a dangerous place for Jews, telling is the fact that 400 French Jewish citizens chose to emigrate to Israel in the middle of the Gaza conflict (7,000 immigrated in total from France in 2014). They preferred sitting in bomb shelters to walking the Champs Élysées. I believe their message is loud and clear.

Gdalit Neuman

Toronto


More immigration can save our schools

How is the TDSB supporting immigration into T.O. as a way of avoiding school closings (NOW, February 12-18)? 

An influx of refugees filled our schools with Vietnamese children in the 1970s and 80s. Why can’t the TDSB promote enrolment by getting the government to open our doors to Syrian, Ukrainian, Palestinian and Iraqi children escaping war? 

As a TDSB teacher, my first job was at Pauline Johnson Jr. Public School in Scarborough, where enrolment grew with the influx of Sri Lankan, Afghan and Iraqi children. They helped build community gardens and win the city basketball championship, beating Agnes McPhail at the buzzer. 

Pauline Johnson PS taught me the importance of safe shelter, unity and peace-building. Closings will only make poorer neighbourhoods more vulnerable to gun violence and isolation. 

Davis Mirza

Toronto


Straitjacketing sex ed in the classroom

Robert Smol’s Sex-ed Offensive (NOW, January 26) suggests teachers “stick to the script” when it comes to teaching sex in the classroom. Lol. 

Keeping sex-ed scripted and sanitary will not protect us (or students) from anything, and it will prevent students from sharing and discussing their experiences in a safe and supervised environment. Maybe in the Catholic board this kind of straitjacketing of our professional judgment makes sense. Not in my classroom, not in my shop.

Peter Hasek

Grade 7 teacher (and school steward)

G.B. Little PS, Scarborough


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