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Letters to the Editor, June 1, 2023

Thursday letters to the editor.
Thursday letters to the editor. Photo by Illustration /TORONTO SUN

SAME OLD, SAME OLD

What do all the millions spent on Maple Leaf players get you? Like every year since 1967, nothing. This team is made up to play well during the season, then they forget how to play for keeps in the playoffs. I was actually shocked when they won the first round. Now all the players will be demanding raises to do the same thing next season.

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Gregg Smith                                                                                                                                                         Barrie

(And with a new GM about to join, will it make much of a difference at all?)

STILL TORONTO THE GOOD

On May 26, I was walking in the area of Church and Wellesley in Toronto when a flapping sound got my attention, and I looked up. There was a pigeon, hanging upside down with a leg trapped in some mesh wire. Being someone who can’t pass an animal in distress, I went around the corner to a restaurant called Amor and asked if they had a ladder. The owner not only got a ladder but came with me and tried to free the bird’s leg. I said I would go up, but he took it on himself. The ladder was too short, and he went back to his store and got a broom, trying to dislodge the bird’s leg, but to no avail. Then I saw Dudley’s Hardware store. They readily pitched in and got a bigger ladder, and one of the men there climbed up. The bird was about 12 feet up. This Good Samaritan was able to free the leg and it was cut and bleeding. One onlooker clapped about the success! We went back to the store, gently put the pigeon in a box, and he called a person he knew who dealt with injured birds. Toronto, like many big cities, gets a bad rap about being cold and impersonal. It was a warm and meaningful example of how people still have compassion and kindness, and a desire to help. Huge thanks to the businesses that stepped up to rescue a small, helpless and insignificant creature, out of the goodness of their hearts.

Katherine Burt                                                                                                                                            Leamington, Ont.

(The people of this city are our bright lights, as your story demonstrates. Sadly, we are governed terribly by people who make bad policy decisions)