Treaty rights at stake in Short Hills hunt

Greg Miller’s vicious and defamatory comments about the late president George H.W. Bush were disgraceful.

It seems that a few far leftists and cultural Marxists have snuck onto council under the guise of “community activists.”

It seems that voters have just finished throwing the rascals out when it's necessary to prepare to do it all over again..

Alan Stewart

St. Catharines

I'm responding to the letter against the annual Short Hills hunt.

Any request to end the hunt at Short Hills must be directed to the Haudenosaunee, the only ones who have the sovereign right to make this decision under nationto-nation treaties recognized by the governments of Canada, Ontario, the United Nations and international law. To ask the Ontario government to stop the hunt is to demand the violation of Indigenous rights

Thank you to Linda Manson for bringing this situation to our attention and to your newspaper informing us of what to expect from the developers of the Riverfront Community Project, adjacent to Thundering Waters.

I have personally seen the “path” cleared where developer GR (Can) Investment Co. Ltd. sent in heavy equipment to create a route. It would appear a bulldozer dropped its blade and just plowed in with no regard for provincially significant wetlands.

Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority has indicated that, “We would never allow any of that heavy machinery to go into the PSW to begin with.” It was done anyway.

Does the developer care about protecting our environment or is it all just dollars? Unfortunately, most of our city councillors just see dollars.

Thank you to John Bacher, the environmentalist, who is appealing the whole process in order to protect lands, that once despoiled, can never be replaced.

Rob Hay

Niagara Falls