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Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of February 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. 

Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjones@infonews.ca.

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JONESIE: The only ones who could stop a (potential) US dictatorship

There’s some good news on the horizon. His poll numbers are slipping. His numbers are worse in the first month than any president since 1953. 51% disapprove of the job he is doing. There isn’t any category in which he is above water. If you go issue by issue from who he has picked for the cabinet to eliminating parts of the government, the negative numbers are staggering. — Bonnie Derry, via iNFOnewa.ca

'The flag flies for all.' Facing threats, Canada sees renewed sense of pride in flag

I am a Canadian, and looking at the challenges of other countries, I think Canadians are a bit spoiled and don’t realize how good they have it or how good they can make it. They don’t know hardship like my parents or grandparents experienced, and I hope they never do. By all means take back the flag and ignore the trolls. Grow and keep the pride, strength and love of being Canadian! — Deborah Podurgiel, via iNFOnews.ca 

BC Housing project in Kamloops two years behind schedule and over budget

It’s because all these not for profit organizations have no one to hold them accountable, so they use these housing projects as a way to take government funding and use it as profit for themselves or for the ones who run the non profit. It’s truly genius and it hurts those it’s alleged trying to help. — Shannell M Myers, via iNFOnews.ca 

GOT MILK?: This Kamloops farm doesn't just milk cows it's a self-sufficient processor

Well done Laura. Canadian and local! — Lorene Fennell, via iNFOnews.ca 

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Wow what a great article! Just so you know, they make the best egg nog. They should surprise us and do some mid year. — Bonnie Derry, via iNFOnews.ca

Province fined $800,000 for sloppy traffic control at BC music festival

Most of us would expect WorkSafeBC is a part of the provincial government, so tell us more about that. — Myna Lee Johnstone, via iNFOnews.ca 

THOMPSON: Let's hope Americans rise up in protest against wannabe dictator Donald Trump

You couldn’t be more right on the mark! — Diane Courneyeur, via iNFOnews.ca 

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Another great column, this should be a wake up call for Canadians thinking that charging to the Conservatives would be a good choice. — Bonnie Derry

BC woman who inherited $1.8M fights to stay in subsidized housing

This is exactly what wrong with this system, greed. — Leonard Legare, via iNFOnews.ca

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Come on, is she saying with her inheritance she can’t find a home she would like? Perhaps giving it all to her favourite charity would solve her problem. — Agnes Takacs, via iNFOnews.ca 

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She doesn’t want to lose her familiar home. She needs some assistance with finding a new place to live and managing and investing the money wisely. Change is inevitable and adapting can be hard. — Kim Lester, via iNFOnews.ca 

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She has enough money to find another quiet place. Subsidize units are meant for poor people, not for rich people with lots of money. — Marry Peace, via iNFOnews.ca 

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This is so ridiculous. The government doesn’t allow people on disability to receive any sort of insurance, big or small, or they will start to deduct from what you receive each month. The whole point of disability is government mandated poverty, to keep us down, not to lift us up. It’s to reduce us to sub-human. Isn’t that obvious with how they’ve always treated us in the local offices? I’m sure we all have stories of disrespect, no matter how we treat them. Again, it’s ridiculous. That’s not a lot of money in Vancouver, let this person have it and enjoy the rest of their life, and stay safe in subsidized housing and keep their disability benefits. — Katie Martin, via iNFOnews.ca 

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I think it is sad that a wealthy woman wants to be given free housing. She can afford to move, freeing up her current apartment for someone who actually needs it. — Eddie Peterson, via iNFOnews.ca

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Someone needs to tell her she can’t have it both ways. Social programs including BC Housing subsidies are for the needy. — Corinne Angell, via iNFOnews.ca 

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She should pay full rent if she doesn’t want to move. Some people are out here paying high rent that leaves them with little or no income to provide for anything else. — Dezrie Theresa, via iNFOnews.ca

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She should not rely on the government to support her, she now has the money to live anywhere she can. — Jeff Fraser, via iNFOnews.ca 

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How do people like this woman get their sense of entitlement? Subsidized housing is not a right. — Rebecca Halldorson, via iNFOnews.ca 

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You can’t find accommodation with $1.8 million and allow someone living under the poverty line to have the subsidized unit? — Tamara Dolan, via iNFOnews.ca

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The judge is totally right. With the amount she has and at her age, she can live very nicely in a very quiet area in Vancouver. Why should taxpayers keep paying, when in fact she has all the money she will ever need. The reason she got disability was because she had no money, but now she does and this is great. Good luck to her. — Maria M Pineda, via iNFOnews.ca 

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If she doesn’t want the money, I’ll take it. Sounds like she just doesn’t want to move, pay higher rent, which I get, but you just inherited a small fortune, stop whining. Government assistance is for people who don’t have money. With $1.8 million you can buy a quiet place somewhere else. The entitlement is strong with this one. — Michelle Knox, via iNFOnews.ca 

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What the hell? I’ve been on the BC Housing register for years and I am on disability, and this woman has the means to pay for a nice place that isn’t subsidized. There is a housing shortage with people literally sleeping on the streets in the cold and this person is whining that she has to move because she has too much money! —Shauna Mote, via iNFOnews.ca 

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Get a grip lady. Some people like myself are trying to survive with multiple disabilities and actual financial barriers. With your mother’s financial blessing to you, you’re able to buy your own home now. Go do so. — Tanya Christiansen, via iNFOnews.ca

JONESIE: Booing the American anthem is understandable, but the wrong strategy

Thanks Marshall. I had not thought about it this way. I was actually happy about the booing, but after reading this, you’ve opened my eyes to the true Canadian approach. — Peter Boyd, via iNFOnews.ca 

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People are venting, yes it’s ugly but these are ugly times we live in. The boos weren’t directed to the 20 players but rather to the 350 million Americans as a whole. Whilst we may indeed be “the nicest kid and the best friend in the schoolyard”, our neighbours aren’t called “Ugly Americans” for nothing.

“It has always been the case that if the Americans really wanted Canada, they could come and take it and there’s nothing we could do.” I see, so we should drop trou, bend over and ask for another?

Those that stand for nothing fall for anything. Good to know where you stand, but I should have known that, after all, you’re an Albertan. Whilst 12 provincial and territorial leaders gathered for an emergency meeting last month, one leader was conspicuously absent, it seems she had better things to do, like go on a personal vacation than present a unified front. However, she was able to squeeze in a last minute invite to Mara Lago from Kevin O’Leary and shill for the oil industry. So much for Team Canada.

'To whom much is given, much is expected', is a famous idiom that dates back to the bible. I guess Albertans missed that day in school, the rest of the country didn’t. You write “We help everyone if we can”, well maybe it’s time we helped other weaker nations by standing up to our closest alley and telling them what we really think. After all, if not Canada, then who? — Mac Gordon, via iNFOnews.ca 

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RCMP identify victims in Coldstream double murder

Releasing photos of mostly covered persons of interest two years after the fact seems a colossal waste of opportunity. Surely the time to do that would have been shortly after the fact when viewers might say “hey that’s the hoodie such and such wears all the time?” — William Mastop, via iNFOnews.ca 

iN PHOTOS: Kamloops photographer captures owl coughing up pellet, eating its prey

Wow! That is amazing. Great shots. — Deborah Podurgiel, via iNFOnews.ca 

RCMP mistake sees Vernon man with $200,000 of meth, cocaine walk free

I believe this judge has also brought justice into disrepute. — Patrick Longworth, via iNFOnews.ca 

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