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Staten Island: Reading your article "EMTs chase down car as it rolled away carrying wounded gun victims" (May 24) reminded me of an old TV show's closing lines, "There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." Thank you for highlighting the uplifting work of these two FDNY Emergency Medical Services heroes. They are members of N.Y.'s Best, NYC's smallest first responder service performing an outsized role.

Rockaway Park: After the strange judgments the Supreme Court has issued, I’m beginning to wonder if we really need them. I’m not aware of any other countries having a system like ours, and the lifetime tenure law was made under the mistaken belief that if the justices are given assurances that they will be able to stay in power for as long as they want, they will not be affected by outside influences.

Brooklyn: Re Harry Siegel’s Jan. 30 column, ”The short game, the long game and Eric Adams”: With a new mayor and governor poised to have a better relationship than their predecessors, now is the best chance to address New York’s greatest challenges: a surge in crime, rising homelessness and the desperate need for an inclusive recovery from the pandemic.

iPolitics By Charlie Pinkerton. Published on May 10, 2021 12:03pm Many of Ottawa's major lobbying firms reside on Queen Street. (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) Notably, EVSX, a subsidiary of Montreal’s St-Georges Eco-Mining, was registered by consultant Jean-Luc Plante to seek financial support from Natural Resources Canada to recycle critical minerals. Capital Power Corp. is interested in federal support to phase out coal-fired electricity generation in Alberta and retire coal-fired power plants under the Capital Stock Turnover Plan. The Edmonton company was registered by Crestview Str...

iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on May 3, 2021 11:07am West Block on Parliament Hill (Jolson Lim/iPolitics) B.C.-based cannabis company Tilray is seeking discussions with Health Canada about the rules governing cannabis beverages, as well as equivalencies with other cannabis products, which became legal in Canada in 2019. On Monday, Tilray announced the completion of its deal with Aphria to become “a leading cannabis-focused consumer-packaged-goods company.” According to the news release on the company website, it wants to “have a complete portfolio of cannabis 2.0 pro...