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FPTP creates apathy, disempowerment

Re: 鈥渟a国际传媒 voters should reject proportional representation,鈥 editorial, Nov. 16. The sa国际传媒 is an important local newspaper that has a reputation for sound journalism.

Don鈥檛 try to justify loss of lives in war

Re: 鈥淭ragically flawed Afghanistan remembrance,鈥 opinion, Nov. 16.

Government keeps moving goal posts

Re: 鈥渟a国际传媒 voters should reject proportional representation,鈥 editorial, Nov. 16. Congratulations for the editorial and your stance against proportional representation. Well done, as opposed to the way this was handled by the government.

PR would improve our democracy

Re: 鈥渟a国际传媒 voters should reject proportional representation,鈥 editorial, Nov. 16. I agree that people come to sa国际传媒 because it is a democratic country, but not because of our first-past-the-post voting system.

Sunday letters

Gas in short supply? Buy electric heater Re: 鈥淐hilling out amid natural gas deficit,鈥 Nov. 14. There seem to be two aspects to this story. 1.

More letters

Ministers鈥 earnest concern comes a decade too late Re: 鈥淯rgent action needed to aid threatened southern resident whales,鈥 comment, Nov. 2.

Comment: Declare an emergency over opioid crisis

Our family lost a loved son and brother at the age of 26 to fentanyl poisoning on April 24, 2017.

Saturday letters

Newspaper鈥檚 position is unacceptable Re: 鈥渟a国际传媒 voters should reject proportional representation,鈥 editorial, Nov. 16. Please accept this as my formal protest against not so much the sa国际传媒鈥檚 stand, as its egregious promotion of the current B.

Referendum letters: Yes

War veteran wants to see real聽democracy I am one of the few remaining veterans of the Second World War. I fought in France and Germany before stepping on a mine in Germany in March 1945. I knew why I was there, although I was only 19. Now I am 93.

Referendum letters: No

On electoral reform, take聽nobody鈥檚 word for it Re: 鈥淒on鈥檛 worry about ballot鈥檚 second question,鈥 column, Nov. 14. Les Leyne鈥檚 column hit the nail on the head, or in the coffin, of proportional representation.