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Today's letters: Sports gambling ads are out of control
Saturday, Feb. 18: On the Wild West of gambling; return to the office; and the ethics of our MPs. → Read More
Today's letters: Transgender people need fair access to health care
Thursday, Feb. 16: On equitable access to health care service; and, can the LRT be salvaged? → Read More
Today's letters: Compare Ottawa to a European city? Absurd
Saturday, Feb. 11: On reshaping downtown Ottawa; neglecting the east end; building bridges; and Canada's tax agency. → Read More
Today's letters: Chinese spy balloon leaves questions
Tuesday, Feb. 7: Why did Canada leave it to the Americans to shoot down the balloon? → Read More
Today's letters: Amira Elghawaby's appointment isn't supposed to make people comfortable
Saturday, Feb. 4: The task of Canada’s first special representative on combating Islamophobia is to challenge our biases, one reader notes. → Read More
Today's letters: Canada must find more tanks for Ukraine
Saturday, Jan. 28: On Leopard tanks; the convoy protest; public servants and more. → Read More
Today's letters: Reopen Wellington Street to normal traffic
Tuesday, Jan. 24: On the downtown Ottawa street that was closed because of the truckers; and secrecy at The Royal. → Read More
Today's letters: Doug Ford's health-care plans raise concern
Saturday, Jan. 21: Readers aren't happy with Ontario's proposal to fund procedures outside hospitals. → Read More
Today's letters: Ottawa's continuing coyote challenge; Ford's health care plan
Wednesday, Jan. 18: It's been left to citizens to sort out the wildlife problem, says one reader. → Read More
Today's letters: Clean off that car after snow storms, Ottawa
Monday, Jan. 16: A word on winter safety; the vacant-unit tax form; and COVID thoughts. → Read More
Today's letters: What should Canada do with the F-35 fighter jet?
Saturday, Jan. 14: There's a range of strong views about our purchase of the F-35, and about our military aid for Ukraine. → Read More
Today's letters: City's approach to collect vacant unit tax is deplorable
With its embrace of negative option billing and notices that could be mistaken for junk mail, what was the City of Ottawa thinking? Letters@ottawacitizen.com → Read More
Today's Letters: Time to address mismanagement of OC Transpo during the pandemic
Friday, Jan. 6: OC Transpo should match service requirements to transit riders' needs, Letters@ottawacitizen.com → Read More
Today's letters: Charity begins right here, Ottawa
Saturday, Dec. 31: At a time when the need is greatest, we shouldn't scrimp on charitable donations, a reader says. → Read More
Today's letters: Visits from Santa; talking turkey; and more
Saturday, Dec. 24: One family describes an unexpected Christmas visitor. → Read More
Today's letters: Ottawa's Pinecrest Public School needs help
Friday, Dec. 23: Readers express concerns about the status of a public school where both safety and learning concerns have been raised. → Read More
Today's letters: Public servants shouldn't complain about working from the office
Breadcrumb Trail Links * Opinion * Editorials Today's letters: Public servants shouldn't complain about working from the office Saturday, Dec. 17: Readers aren't impressed with Ottawa bureaucrats' hesitation to return to the office part-time. You can write to us too, at letters@ottawacitizen.com Mona Fortier, left, president of the Treasury Board, has ordered federal public servants back to the… → Read More
Today's letters: $20K New Year's meal shouldn't be on the menu
Saturday, Dec. 10: Readers find restaurateur's plan to ring out 2022 more than a little tone-deaf. Plus, debating civilly; and face masks. → Read More
Today's letters: Vaccines; vacant units; and 'Truckers 2.0'
Tuesday, Dec. 6: Is it too much to think about offering incentives to those who get vaccinated, rather than punishing those who don't? → Read More
Today's letters: The many lessons of Ottawa's LRT fiasco
Saturday, Dec. 3: Readers want to know how we'll avoid a repeat of light-rail blunders. Plus, more on the Emergencies Act. → Read More