Letters: Conversion to metric can be ridiculous

Re: They Came, They Climbed, They Conquered, Aug. 21
The pathological aversion to imperial units of measurement in the Canadian media, even when reproducing U.S. news articles, is so silly it seems designed to avert a lawsuit from the federal government. Not only that, the arithmetical absurdities in their efforts to calculate metric equivalents are often an embarrassment. For example, this article about Yosemite National Park states that “every time you drive about 30 metres, you go up or