The current dilemma of “vote splitting” in our federal election deserves to be redefined [“Site guides strategic vote”]. Our votes cannot be “split”; however, our votes can and very often do go unrepresented due to an outdated, unfair voting system (first past the post).

In response to Naomi Salie’s letter: we have sailed the same route in August. The number of whale-watching boats is ridiculous. Why can’t humans leave these creatures alone?

Gwynne Dyer’s article [“Comrade Bush tries his hand at banking”], what a brilliant work of satire! For example, when the FNM [Fannie Mae], FHLMC [Freddie Mac], and AIG pyramid schemes were nationalized (i.e., expropriated), it is the American public that had their assets expropriated.