For once I must agree with Deveryn Ross in his March 20 column and encourage the citizens of Brandon: “Don’t rush changes to city council.” In fact, I would argue that the citizens of Brandon should not make such important changes to city council.

I am mystified why any changes are being proposed, except that certain members of council want to be paid more money for doing their job. Perhaps someone should be willing to remind those councillors that if they don’t think they are paid enough money they should resign and find employment elsewhere.

I am also mystified as to why certain members of the administration are supporting these changes, except that fewer councillors mean less work for administration staff. It appears that they are unaware of how Brandon came to have wards and have not done their homework.

In 1971, the Manitoba government appointed a special commission led by Dr. A.L. Dulmage, president of Brandon University, called the Brandon Boundaries Commission. The commission called for public submissions on whether the then boundaries of the City of Brandon should be extended and what other changes should be made to the electoral process in Brandon.

Court of King’s Bench — what’s in a name? Does this mean that the bench represents the King’s will expressed via Canadian law?

I am deeply concerned about interpretations of family law where the bench does not make decisions that are in the best interests of children to thrive and develop. Does the King not like children?

In some post-divorce cases, it seems that legal, or litigation, abuse occurs. Legal abuse is when an ex-partner continues using the courts and legal system to exert power and control, post-divorce, over their ex-partners in various ways to humiliate, ruin, change custody, deprive of resources, threaten, etc. Often women and children are the targets and victims.

Typically, such actions have all or several of the following impacts:

Regarding “the Prez dispenser” editorial cartoon on Page A10 in Saturday’s paper, I understand the point the cartoon is making — that Trump seems to equate body count as points in the game, showing how tough he is.

However, I think the cartoon has another, and for me, unacceptable inference.

That is that 40 some American bodies are more important than the roughly 2,000 Iranian bodies.

No American life is worth 50 Iranian lives; particularly the children.

There are many people experiencing trauma in their lives for which they receive counselling, hormones, medications, sedatives. These are many people born with conditions or who develop them later in life, and even more people are traumatized from an event that has caused psychological coping difficulties, anxiety and depression.

People have side-effects and many people self-medicate. All people fall down, and somewhere along the way their situation consumed them, traumatized them or detrimentally set them back.

Everybody is going through something.

And that means the system of professional support is overtaxed and people can’t get the start-to-finish support they need such as diagnosis, coping skills and medication if necessary.