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Letter: Health care should not be a choice it should be a priority
By Letter to the Editor on June 5th, 2025
Dear editor, As the UCP government in Alberta seems to be making it easier for private health care to grab a foothold in Alberta, we at Palliser Friends of Medicare feel we should remind people that public health care better serves the public and is a more cost-effective way to run a provincial health-care system. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Enough is enough with these ‘Black Hats’
By Letter to the Editor on June 5th, 2025
Dear editor, This is a letter to local ultra UCPers who call yourselves Black Hats (a sly way of distancing from the Red Hatted Orange Autocrat, I suppose). Since you are emulating Quebecois Separatistes I must ask why? Yet I believe I know the answer and it’s rather simple; greed and a self-centred way of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Hard to talk to your representatives when you can’t feel heard
By Letter to the Editor on May 29th, 2025
Re: Critics blast Alberta Energy Regulator coal project approval by Alexandra Noad in the Medicine Hat News on May 21, 2025. Dear editor, In this article, Rob Miyashiro, MLA Lethbridge West, “encouraged Albertans to contact their local MLA … to let them know they don’t support the mine.” That’s great advice, only I had an ... Read More »
5 responsesLetter: Canada needs constitutional reforms to survive and thrive
By Letter to the Editor on May 27th, 2025
Dear editor, The current bluster for Alberta separation after the Liberal victory in the recent federal election has challenging implications. A group of disenchanted Albertans refuse to accept the results and the current governance model, and they are promoting separation. The process for separation has been clarified by the Supreme Court in The Clarity Act. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Boundary between Canada and U.S. not just real, it’s historically significant
By Letter to the Editor on May 13th, 2025
Dear editor, It’s time those who say we should become the 51st state begin to understand Canadian history and geography. Canada’s southern border divides us from those with differing views and expectations – it is a totally appropriate and wonderful boundary. Those who seek to dissolve it like the Orange Autocrat and the supposed one-fifth ... Read More »
4 responsesLetter: If we work together, we can end the unfair housing game in Canada
By Letter to the Editor on April 23rd, 2025
Dear editor, Everyone needs a safe, decent, affordable place to call home. But for too long, our housing system has felt like an unfair game rigged against us all. Rents are skyrocketing. Mortgage rates are unpredictable. Buying a home is beyond reach. In our own community, there just isn’t enough housing for it to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Snow-plow method would save money, increase safety
By Letter to the Editor on April 23rd, 2025
Dear editor, I’m sure you have noticed the dusty, dirty, polluted, unhealthy springtime air in Medicine Hat caused by the thick layer of sand/dirt layered on city streets over the winter. It is terribly unhealthy for city residents with any type of breathing, sinus or allergy conditions. These layers upon layers of sand/dirt on the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: When politicians present us information, is it fact or fiction?
By Letter to the Editor on April 17th, 2025
Dear editor, Often when elected members speak, percentages are used to support their political position, but can the facts be substantiated? MLA Wright stated in the Medicine Hat News (Feb. 18), the Cypress Courier (Feb. 25) and another local paper “more than 60% of the province does not agree with solar and wind power.” I ... Read More »
4 responsesLetter: Alberta Prosperity’s presentation of misrepresentation
By Letter to the Editor on April 15th, 2025
Dear editor, Concerned citizens attended the Alberta Prosperity Project presentation held in Redcliff. The talk was an orchestrated presentation of misinformation mixed with the zeal of a Christian Nationalism rally. Hung up on the Trudeau war cry (someone please update them), they presented misleading information on COVID and vaccines, at times referring to a globalist ... Read More »
5 responsesLetter: Consider the source when thinking about a provincial pension plan
By Letter to the Editor on April 15th, 2025
Dear editor, The Alberta Prosperity Project, a group promoting Alberta sovereignty, held a meeting in Redcliff on April 9. They advocate for an Alberta Pension Plan. If what they state in meetings is what they have on their website, it might be worthwhile to consider the following: 1. The Prosperity Project bases its calculations on ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: Do we live to consume, or consume to live?
By Letter to the Editor on April 10th, 2025
Dear editor, We aren’t people anymore. We are instead labelled “consumers,” so therefore our value depends on how much we consume. We are but cogs in the consumption-for-consumption-sake economic machine. Or are we? Media commentators and so-called social influencers give us this “consumer” label over and over. We must buy more to prevent economic recession. ... Read More »
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