Letters to the Editor
Protesting criminal behaviour is not inciting hatred
By Letter to the Editor on September 26th, 2018
Re: “Who, exactly, is inciting hatred,” Aug. 18. The letter by Mr. Hubbard was about someone recently charged by police with a crime. The person is accused of inciting hatred. At the accused’s first court appearance there were protesters who spoke publicly about inciting hatred. According to Mr. Hubbard the protests were hateful and the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘What Would Jesus Do?’
By Letter to the Editor on September 25th, 2018
In church on a recent Sunday our minister left us with the thought “What Would Jesus Do?” So I thought should we apply that to the safe consumption site question and how we approach people who use drugs? I think we could. Jesus did not agree with the teaching of the times and paid attention ... Read More »
1 responseStory of fallen firefighters should have been covered
By Letter to the Editor on September 22nd, 2018
In the Sept. 10 edition of this newspaper there was a news article describing fallen firefighters being honoured in Ottawa. The article recognized a firefighter from Ontario, but nothing was written about a local firefighter from southeast Alberta who also lost his life, James Hargrave. He was a volunteer firefighter from a well known family ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Crosswalk shouldn’t be used for advertising
By Letter to the Editor on September 21st, 2018
Medicine Hat’s crosswalks can be some of the most dangerous places to navigate in our small city. Both for pedestrians as well as drivers. So what kind of people would come up with the idea to use our crosswalks as a platform for advertising? Surely there are more safer ways to advertise in our high-tech ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Education and religion should be separated
By Letter to the Editor on September 19th, 2018
Re: “Catholic board chair says bishop should be consulted ahead of any vaccination decisions,” Sept. 12 Who agrees with Peter Grad that the Catholic school board consult with their bishop before implementing any changes to its vaccination program, a program change advised by the medical experts of this province? I mean does the bishop have ... Read More »
1 responseTaking action on rural crime
By Letter to the Editor on September 19th, 2018
People should be safe and secure in their own homes. They should be able to leave for work during the day with the expectation that their hard-won possessions will still be there when they return. For too many of us in rural areas this is not always the case and this is a problem that ... Read More »
1 responseGuest column was bang on
By Letter to the Editor on September 19th, 2018
Re: “Why do social media users intentionally add to someone’s pain?”, Sept. 8 I would like to thank Peter Mueller for his recent guest column. As Mr. Mueller points out, though his family of five fled from Germany and were adopted by a local church in Medicine Hat (in what I am assuming was the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Muslims are a favourite target
By Letter to the Editor on September 17th, 2018
Re: “Christians being persecuted into extinction” Sept. 13. Leslie Maltin’s response to my guest column of Sept. 8, though well written and thoughtful, seems like a bull’s reaction to the matador’s red cape. He reacts to one sentence from my article: “The favourite target these days seems to be immigrants from Muslim countries.” Apparently the ... Read More »
4 responsesWhat message are we sending our youth?
By Letter to the Editor on September 17th, 2018
I am writing to convey my concerns about the proposed supervised consumption site for Medicine Hat. My understanding of what I will refer to as ‘the injection site’ is that it is coming to Medicine Hat as a health initiative mandated by the federal and provincial governments. I am concerned specifically about how this site ... Read More »
1 responseChristians being persecuted into extinction
By Letter to the Editor on September 13th, 2018
Re: “Why do social media users choose to intentionally add to someone’s pain?,” Sept. 8 I want to direct a few facts to the statement made by Mr. Mueller: The favourite target these days seems to be immigrants from Muslim countries. Could it be possible that the verses of Islam from the Qur’an to hate ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bashing of the carbon tax by politicians being done as a means to buy votes
By Letter to the Editor on September 10th, 2018
Re: “If Tories want to lead on climate change they must embrace a price on carbon,” Aug. 27 I’m betting these Reformers, pretending to be conservatives, have no intention of doing anything about climate change, as Peter Lougheed found out. For years Lougheed urged the Klein and Stelmach governments to slow down the growth of ... Read More »
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