Editor:
The recent poem published on Friday, July 3 issue of The Creemore Echo is profoundly distasteful in its depiction of the president of the United States of America. I believe it was entirely inappropriate. We need to widen the lens of responsibility rather than fixating on a single figure.
At its core, this publication functions more like a community paper for a rural Canadian audience. Am I right?
Arthur Bode wrote a thoughtful reply to the article about Daniel Pinsk dated June 19. In their own way they have engaged in a deeper conversation about our own Canadian government. We need to encourage independent research and fact check regarding our own Prime Minister’s political success and the various controversies surrounding his Liberal Party. Not everything is Trump’s fault - let’s be real!
In celebration of Canada Day, Mr. Harrison Faulkner writes (in Juno News, Remember who you are Canadian man, July 1, 2026), “For generations, Canadians were a people with a shared history, a shared inheritance, and a shared national story. We built a country from sea to sea. We defended it on battlefields around the world. We honoured the men who founded it and understood that nations are held together by more than geography, government programs, or economic prosperity.
“Today that feeling has largely disappeared.
“Our history has been replaced with revisionism. Our founders are condemned instead of celebrated. Our shared identity has given way to the idea that Canada is simply a collection of different groups held together by institutions and bureaucracy.
“That wasn’t always the Canadian story.”
My hope is for Canadians to remember who they are, and how Canada was born 159 years ago!
Cynthia Lavallee,
Creemore.
