Best. Letter. Ever.

Please stop writing editorials

Usually I enjoy blunt, malicious dismissals, but I found Tessa Vanderhart's take on Winnipeg (One great city? 22/03/2006) to be not only bland but insulting, what a combination! Perhaps she was trying to construct her editorial in a way that would enhance the resonance of her Winnipeg epithets: "sprawled," "utterly unsatisfying," "mediocre (at best)," "reprehensible." These seem to sum it up.

What really sticks in my craw is that Vanderhart is so quick to dismiss 700,000 people as individuals. I doubt (and I feel I'm being generous here) if Vanderhart knows personally more than five or six hundred thousand people here in Winnipeg. That still leaves one or two hundred thousand people she's never met that she's labelled as mediocre. That's just stupid, Tessa! Please stop writing editorials.

Evan Johnson