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Opinion: A Canadian apologizes to Texas for Ted Cruz
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No tears here
Regarding “As Texans freeze, a ticket to paradise,” (A10, Feb. 19): Sympathy to Texas from the Great White North. No one here shed tears when Ted Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship. Maybe he could do you the same favour.
Stephen LaCroix, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
Concerned Californian
Regarding “This is a Texas problem, not a clean energy problem,” (A13, Feb. 18): I want to express my sympathy for all those in Texas who are suffering the effects of extreme frost, one more effect of the climate crises. Urge your senators to advocate for changes in the environment that will make such events less frequent and less severe. It is a nice day in California, but we have in our recent memory been hit by the most devastating fires, destroying land, homes and the lives of residents and firefighters. The environmental disasters will only continue to get worse until we press our senators a