Dear editor:
I wonder if the irony of two opinion letters appearing on the same page in the Nov. 5 edition struck others as it did me. Former councillor candidate Rick Mills’ charming thanks for the experience and his invocation for kindness was on the same page as Peter Rusin’s latest attack on the “Old Town elites,” as he calls them.
Mr. Rusin regularly raises his opinions in this paper, which are not completely without some merit and could easily have been presented in a less aggressive manner. Many adjectives can be applied to his style and tone: churlish, rude, menacing, offensive, unsubstantiated and almost vulgar, just to name a few.
My reason for writing is not to challenge Mr. Rusin or how he was brought up, but to implore Mr. Harley and the team to ensure the paper has some standards about what it prints, that maintain civility and in fact kindness. Mr. Harley’s cartoon insert with Mr. Rusin’s letter helped mitigate the opinion piece, but not enough to excuse it as written.
Daryl Novak
NOTL
