As we speak’s letters: Who workout routines ’possession’ over Lansdowne?

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Splitting hairs on Lansdowne ‘homeowners’

Re: Lansdowne 2.0 plan authorized by Ottawa metropolis council, Nov. 9.

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Huge publicity has been given to an EKOS ballot on Lansdowne 2.0 commissioned by the Ottawa Sports activities and Leisure Group. I imagine the ballot is deceptive.

EKOS states its view that “A transparent plurality of the general public incorrectly imagine that Lansdowne is owned by OSEG; just one in 5 acknowledge that Lansdowne is owned by the Metropolis of Ottawa.”

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Relating to the related a part of Lansdowne, OSEG has acquired a lot of a very powerful options usually related to possession: the suitable to handle, the suitable to the earnings, proper to sublet, proper to exclude, and many others.

So in actual fact the general public does accurately perceive that OSEG, with all of the rights to Lansdowne that it has acquired from town, together with the potential to extract massive monetary acquire, has turn out to be the actual proprietor, as ordinarily understood, of the property. Although town retains authorized title to the land, meaning little when so many property rights are literally transferred to OSEG.

Randal Marlin, Ottawa

Why single out these companies?

Re: Deachman, When a restaurant is a ‘grocery retailer,’ it may well’t promote booze, Nov. 9.

One can eat alcohol in lots of Toronto parks, or purchase beer and wine at Loblaws and plenty of “grocery” shops. I’m scratching my head over why La Bottega and Mercator Zacconi are being singled out.

I’ve bought wine an important many instances at La Bottega and have discovered each the choice and comfort refreshing. What’s the huge drama?

John McAuley, Ottawa

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Keep in mind that Jews fought for Canada

There are 358 graves of Jewish Ottawa veterans within the Jewish Memorial Gardens of Ottawa. As I saluted them Friday, I deplored the scapegoating of Jews and the bigotry of antisemitism that has been allowed to flourish in our metropolis.

Canada’s Jewish communities despatched 17,000 women and men, who enlisted in each department of the service and service provider marine, to symbolize Canada alongside different nations of goodwill. Many didn’t come house. Jews who served Canada represented a really massive proportion of their numbers in each neighborhood.

When Jews of Ottawa and elsewhere really feel alone within the struggle in opposition to Jew hatred, keep in mind the position they performed to maintain Canada and the world protected. Stand with us.

Evelyn Greenberg, Ottawa.

Canada should assert an actual establish

Re: Canada welcomes your grievances, Nov. 8.

Tasha Kheiriddin highlights a key limitation to Canadian society: its fragmentation into ethnicities and imported grievances, and the nullification of something distinctly Canadian.

What I’d add is that this “repudiation” of a Canadian essence is making it a lot more durable for Canada to unravel any of its rising issues. Well being care is a multitude, caught in a Nineteen Seventies’ balkanized funding mannequin without end; our army is severely underprepared for at this time’s threats; and our worldwide standing and position is noticeably diminished.

The notion of Canada as a welcoming lodge with no synthesizing identification or nationwide discourse just isn’t solely disheartening however harmful to our collective welfare.

Arthur Leonoff, Perth

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