Today's letters: Military spending, female athletes, Nike protests

Bravo for stopping this military extravaganza
Re: Deputy Minister scales back military ceremony,  Sept 4.
Kudos to DND Deputy Minister Jody Thomas for her refusal to approve the generals’ plan to spend more than $100,000 on a ceremony to mark the transfer of leadership in the armed forces.Such demonstrations of backbone and principle, when confronted with the bureaucracy’s wasteful approach to budget depletion, are sorely lacking in the civil service. However, even $24,000 for a