Right this moment’s letters: Hamas needs to sow division. Do not let it Categorical Occasions

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Resist calls that may polarize us

If Israel responds to requires a ceasefire, the idea goes that Hamas can have gained. If Israelis and Palestinians hate one another for years and a long time to return, Hamas has additionally gained.

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Canadians can solely stand on the sidelines and grieve for what is going on. But when, in our each day lives, we’re requested or anticipated by Israeli or Palestinian buddies or colleagues to take sides, maybe we should always attempt to inform them that we share their ache and perceive their outrage, however that it seems to be the intention of Hamas to divide and sow hatred and the will for revenge amongst extraordinary individuals. If we succumb, Hamas can have achieved its goal.

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The smog of battle’s aftermath is much more lethal than the fog of battle itself.

Annette Bellamy, Ottawa

Use federal tips for Lansdowne 2.0

Re: Ottawa can get tens of millions in federal housing cash if it accepts the foundations, Oct. 19.

Mohammed Adam’s column speaks of NIMBYism: Not in my yard. I reside within the Glebe and say YIMBY: Sure, in my yard.

Many accuse us of NIMBYism in terms of opposing the Landsdowne 2.0 plan to construct two very giant luxurious rental towers. I might welcome inexpensive housing being constructed there. How about two smaller, however extra livable towers (say, 10 tales every)?

There’s a cause why the Glebe is such a fascinating neighbourhood: walkable, good faculties, native purchasing, nicely organized group organizations, parks, and so on. It is a good place for such housing.

Clearly, builders deal with worthwhile housing. It’s the metropolis that should “settle for the foundations,” and with this “new” cash, decide to constructing really inexpensive housing. I say YES to such housing at Lansdowne.

Bessa Whitmore, Ottawa

Canadian medical doctors ought to get precedence

Re: Worldwide medical grads might assist repair Canada’s physician scarcity, Oct. 20.

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To supply post-graduate, in addition to fundamental doctor coaching, a core variety of sufferers is required in addition to an skilled, well-educated fundamental science and scientific educating workers. We will prepare physicians inside that fundamental variety of sufferers, offered we have now the workers. To supply medical coaching for international counties whereas Canada experiences a extreme doctor scarcity is unconscionable.

Deliver house our Canadian residents from Irish and different respected medical faculties. They’ve paid their very own tuition and can present Canada with quickest and most economical “repair” to our extreme doctor scarcity, and moreover they are going to require no cultural acclimatization.

D. C. McCaffrey, MD, Ottawa

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