Letter to the Editor: We need politicians to do better

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At this point, after such a terrible tragedy, we need our politicians and bureaucrats to do better. If you are a concerned citizen, please write your MLA. The election is coming and this issue must not be brushed under the rug. Or, as so often happens, bureaucrats drag their heels until the problem just gets replaced with 15 others and people forget. We’ve been asking for lights at that intersection for decades. Dare we even suggest an overpass? At minimum, reduce the speed to 80 km/hr. When I wrote to my MLA, Eileen Clarke, she told me the matter was being investigated by the RCMO (whoever that is) and that the Minister of Infrastructure was aware. What requirements are necessary to have any assessment done at intersections like this? What requirements are necessary to have an incredibly busy and dangerous intersection warrant control and safety measures? Is a massive accident where 16 people died enough of a requirement? How often are assessments/reassessments done so that tragedies like this do not occur? When was the last assessment completed for this intersection? It can’t come down to a matter of cost. Who can put a price on one life, much less 16 lives, or the many others who have died there who are not accounted for in this editorial.

On this matter, we need political will, not just to brush it off to the administration. We need political will so we can do better than just a cookie-cutter response from our politicians. We need to do better so that no one else will lose a loved one at that intersection. We need to do better so that our first responders don’t have to deal with a devastating scene like that. We need to do better so that workers, semi-drivers, and people on route to Spruce Woods or the casino for some leisure time, are not taking their lives in their hands at that crossing. Carberry is now infamous for this crash and we are a town that is so much more than that. For Carberry, and for all our loved ones, we just need our politicians to do better.

Beth Proven with support from T. Kotaska, K. Duguay, K. Enns, D. Mestdagh, and D. Schneider Carberry, MB

Letter to the Editor: Scientific knowledge is essential

The following is regarding the editorial “It should never happen again” from the July 14, 2023 edition of the Neepawa Banner & Press.

I really disagree with you: Without vaccines many people would die or live diminished lives. Examples: Smallpox, polio, chicken pox (which carries shingles into about a third of all people), mumps, meningitis, whooping cough, the vaccine Gardisil 9, which protects from HPV, which is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world which causes many kinds of cancer, etc.

China is really suffering from COVID-19 because they don’t have a vaccine for it, so they shut down cities and is the reason Apple iPhone manufacturing is being transferred to India.

Also, it wasn’t mishandled in Canada because we had a Justin Trudeau Liberal government who handled it among the best governments in the world, compared to the U.S. which had that moron and imbecile rightwing Republican President Donald Trump who is a liar, cheat, fraud, and crook, and voting for him was the worst thing that the stupid Americans ever did.

And a much higher percentage of Americans died compared to Canadians until the left leaning President Biden made, at great cost and criticism from typically stupid right wing Republicans who promoted either no or the wrong vaccines.

Scientific knowledge is essential, and you don’t seem to have it. Do you still deny climate change?

And God bless those who worked with the sick and dead Canadians who worked in hospitals and personal care homes to help people who risked their lives when we didn’t fully understand it.

David Waldman Winnipeg

MGEU members on strike

Liquor workers in the Manitoba Government Employees Union (MGEU) went on strike on July 19. According to the MGEU, its 1,400 members have been working under an expired contract with Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries since March of 2022. Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries is a Crown Corporation owned by Manitobans and controlled by the Provincial government. Further details will appear in a future edition of the Neepawa Banner & Press.

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