The biggest crisis facing the world is not climate change. It is the murder of millions of babies through abortion. I agree 100% with Richard Dietrich’s letter (“Adult manipulation and media sensationalism,” Oct. 11). The climate crisis is a manufactured crisis. The end of the world is not imminent. In 2008, Al Gore said, the [...] Read More »

Re: “Child abuse in the name of climate change,” Sept. 28 Child abuse in the name of climate change? From a reliable source I have the information that Earth is flat and Elvis is still alive; that carbon emissions over the past 150 years has not gone up and that there were no record-heat years [...] Read More »

Re: “HALO has not been paid per call since one-time grant,” Oct. 3 In 2017 a 1986 BK117 B-2 EMS helicopter S/N 7101 was sold at auction (www.govdeals.com) for US$480,000 (CDN$629,000 at the exchange rate on that date). On July 30, 2018 this machine was registered with mark C-GRLH to the helicopter company Rangeland Helicopters [...] Read More »

Re: “Regrettably, ‘Unplanned’ can’t be unseen,” Sept. 30 I too, attended the showing of the movie, “Unplanned” at the Monarch Theatre. While the writer of the aforementioned letter dwells to a large degree on, in her words, “obscene gore,” that is not at all what made an impression on me. What did affect me, however, [...] Read More »

Re: “You’re up, Premier Kenney,” Oct. 5 Thank you to Mr. Peter Mueller for his guest column. In that column he compared the suicidal antics and stupid warmongering of the world leaders 60 years ago to the willful blindness and simplistic stupidity of world leaders in the last four decades regarding human-caused climate change. His [...] Read More »

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jappel@medicinehatnews.com@MHNJeremyAppel Vote for who we tell you to, or we might separate. That is the petulant refrain of Alberta’s ruling class since it became evident that Conservative leader Andrew Scheer is unlikely to form a majority government after Monday’s election. Barring a major upset, the seat tally will be either a plurality for the Conservatives [...] Read More »

sschmidt@medicinehatnews.com The first and really only thing anyone needs to understand about job creation is that it doesn’t exist – at least not in the way we’re being promised. The Job Creation Tax Cut – a 33% reduction in corporate taxation over four years – has been sold to Albertans as a means to more [...] Read More »

gslade@medicinehatnews.com@MHNGillianSlade A former president of the U.S. has now endorsed Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party in this election, while promises from the leaders abound. Barack Obama has said how much he appreciates Trudeau and how much the world, not just Canada, needs his leadership now. There are some people who would call this political [...] Read More »

“Hard work without a purpose is like a Ferrari without a steering wheel.” –Sergi Trivino Similarly, in Alberta, everything we have worked toward as province and community could become severely limited without new pipelines, a competitive business environment and a federal government that supports our industries. Albertans are well known for their capacity to persevere [...] Read More »

cgallant@medicinehatnews.com@collingallant Death and taxes are inevitable. Both also lead to a lot of questions, but at least one is relatively straight forward. The latter is also at the heart of most conversations during the current federal election, couched in terms of affordability by several major parties and program development by others. For 100 years, income [...] Read More »

Ticked Off That a drug addicted thief carrying a weapon driving a stolen vehicle is able to come on to a family farm and rob them and then the owner is sued by this vermin for defending his family and his property. Tickled Pink Nothing is funnier than a trader thinking he’s cool selling meth [...] Read More »

Ticked Off Last Monday night’s leaders’ debate revealed that climate change is not the most cataclysmic issue facing Canadians it is the “socialist” platforms and ideology being promoted by the Greens and NDP. Ticked Off Not one candidate in the federal election has knocked on my door so far. The sad part is one of [...] Read More »

Ticked Off Enough of the comments by the extreme Christians in this city. We all know your opinions on abortion, LGBTQ people, yadda, yadda, yadda. We get it. You don’t approve. Ticked Off When it comes to climate change it’s not a matter of saving the planet, it’s about human survival. Any thought of reversing [...] Read More »

Tickled Pink With the students rallying over climate change. You are right to be concerned about the negative impact climate change will have over the next 80 years. Don’t be afraid to voice your concern. Tickled Pink To see the young people, the future of our world involved with climate change. They will have to [...] Read More »

Ticked Off That we have people talking about improving programs inside the remand centre yet one of the city’s sheriffs posts disgusting comments about people fighting addiction. Wonder why the system has not improved when you have people in the system posting unprofessional comments on facebook rather than being part of improvement. Ticked Off The [...] Read More »