Longing for peace<\/a>,\u201d March 4) writes that \u201cwe all want peace, but we cannot have peace till there is justice.\u201d<\/p>\nI quite agree. That is precisely why the Iranian regime, the world\u2019s biggest state sponsor of terrorism, must go.<\/p>\n
It is why the people of Iran, and here in the diaspora, have been the loudest voices thanking the U.S. and Israel for weakening the Iranian regime, because they know better than anyone the kind of oppression it inflicts on its own people.<\/p>\n
The Iranian regime, since it took power 47 years ago, doesn\u2019t just oppress its own people. It has funded and armed an array of Islamist terrorist proxies around the Middle East, from Hezbollah to Hamas, and openly calls for the annihilation of Israel.<\/p>\n
Siddiqui is right \u2014 that peace requires justice. And in this case, fighting the murderous Iranian regime is an eminently just cause.<\/p>\n
Donna Broslaw<\/p>\n
Toronto<\/p>\n
Bike lanes and roadways<\/p>\n
For the past year, a grassroots coalition of local residents, seniors, pedestrians, and yes, cyclists, has consistently shown up at City Hall. We\u2019ve taken time from our lives to embrace the delegation process at every step, driven by a single, urgent goal: to ensure this council doesn\u2019t lose sight of the critical need for a safer Wellington Crescent.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why it gave me pause to watch some of this council\u2019s longest-serving members dismiss our citizen-led effort as the work of a \u201cradical bike lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n
The derision in their tone, the casual dismissiveness, was disheartening.<\/p>\n
The contrast in how members of this council treats different stakeholders is stark. Compare the reception given to this citizen-led movement for safer streets to those extended to paid lobbyists for the trucking or heavy construction industries. The very same council members greet them cordially. Then, after their five-minute delegation, they lob soft, \u201cAre you aware\u2026?\u201d-style questions, giving these well-funded interests a platform to further their case.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t help but wonder where we would be today if the Public Works committee had simply listened to the people of this neighbourhood and the public service from the start, and quickly installed temporary bike lanes. The same coalition of citizens would be applauding this council for being responsive and responsible.<\/p>\n
Instead, we have a council leveraging every tool at its disposal to delay necessary safety improvements. The byproduct of this obstruction is a community of citizens now watching their every move and holding them accountable for it.<\/p>\n
Ian McCausland<\/p>\n
Winnipeg<\/p>\n
The city of Winnipeg\u2019s plan to establish bike lanes on Wellington Crescent east of Academy Road is necessary to make cycling safe along an important transportation artery.<\/p>\n
I am, however, concerned that the city will over-build bike paths and overly restrict vehicle access.<\/p>\n
Vehicles and bicycles can operate on city streets in a safe manner. The relatively new bike lanes alongside Berry Street are a good example of how separate bike access can be created without excessive construction costs or vehicle restrictions.<\/p>\n
The Berry Street bike paths appear to have been built mostly on the existing boulevard, as narrow is it is. As positive a development as the Berry Street bike lanes is, a curb barrier would make conditions even safer.<\/p>\n
If other streets, including Wellington Crescent, require more protection reducing vehicle speed limits to 40 km\/h, or adding the occasional speed bump might help.<\/p>\n
If it is deemed absolutely necessary to build a separate bike lane in an existing vehicle lane, then the city should consider doing so only on either the north or south curb lanes and have cyclists travelling in both directions sharing that lane.<\/p>\n
Eliminating a lane of vehicle traffic in both east- and westbound lanes is unnecessary.<\/p>\n
Jeff Delaney<\/p>\n
Winnipeg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sorry, not sorry U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Fox News, \u201cThey refuse to sell U.S. wine and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-526379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}