April 3 The darker side of the Sunshine List and other letters to the editor

Re The Dark Side Of The Sunshine List (April 2): Your editorial grossly understates the reality when you refer to salary increases, from 1996 to the present, for the Durham region medical officer of health and chief of police as being "greater than" the inflation rate.The Bank of Canada calculation for inflation from 1996 to 2013 is 39.27 per cent. At the rate of inflation, the salary ...