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Letters to the Editor, Nov. 1, 2024

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SACK THE BAGS

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Brian Lilley wrote about cloth grocery bags (“Deserve to be sacked,” Oct. 29). I regularly use Instacart as I do not own a vehicle and am 70 years old with several health issues. I have hundreds of them! What I truly don’t understand is why the supermarkets are using cloth instead of BPA free recyclable green bags? This situation is so dumb! We could still use the green bags as kitchen catchers if some bright spark in government would just wake the hell up!

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Liane Le Tendre
Windsor

(This is what happens when half baked policies meets reality)

BODY CLOCK

Re “Not falling for it again” (Jane Stevenson, Oct. 31): I am so tired of reading/hearing about the health risks to our circadian body clocks, and our inability to adjust, every time we change our physical clocks by one lousy hour every six months. Instead, let’s recognize the serious health risks to all of our maintenance, medical and emergency rotating shift workers who are often forced to turn their body clocks cyclically around by 12 hours at a time, twice or more, every single week.

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Marvin Sandomirsky
Oshawa

(This debate continues to rage on. Simply put, Ontario cannot do little unless there are changes in some of states)

INSIDIOUS HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Re “Facebook posts masked alleged torment of sex slave” (Brad Hunter, Oct. 30): As a leading Canadian advocacy organization for survivors of human trafficking, we are deeply disturbed by the Sun’s recent portrayal of an alleged trafficking situation as a “cosy arrangement” and the mischaracterization of the survivor’s trauma as merely being a “sucker.” This representation is not only reprehensible but also harmful. Human trafficking often starts insidiously, with traffickers masquerading as caring intimate partners, only to begin a process of grooming and exploitation. Survivors frequently experience conflicting emotions about their abusers, which significantly complicate their ability to extricate themselves from trafficking situations. To trivialize their suffering for the sake of a salacious news story not only distorts the reality of their experiences but also risks deterring other survivors from seeking the vital help they need.

Julia Drydyk
Executive Director
Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking

(No trivialization here. This is a scourge that needs to be rooted out)

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