Letters to the Editor
Burnaby bylaw fight could be a precedent setter
By Letter to the Editor on April 3rd, 2018
If Burnaby loses the bylaw fight on the Kinder Morgan pipeline business interests are going to get some really big boots. Bylaws protect you from receiving or causing harm. Well, mostly. But generally they’re a greater good and allow municipalities to exercise your local rights and freedoms and if any business can ignore bylaws then ... Read More »
1 responseRail or pipeline should be an easy choice
By Letter to the Editor on April 2nd, 2018
A Fraser Institute study using data from government sources, found when the safety of transporting oil and gas by pipelines and rail is compared, taking into consideration the amount of product moved, pipelines are found to be the much safer transportation method. Specifically, rail is found to be over 4.5 times more likely to experience ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter a welcome change
By Letter to the Editor on April 2nd, 2018
Re: “NDP fixing an inherited mess,” March 27 Many thanks to Alan Spiller for his letter to the editor last week. It was a refreshing and Intelligent read. We are so tired of the usual NDP bashing and one-sided propaganda. Jean Gray Medicine Hat... Read More »
1 responseDeck stacked against rural folk
By Letter to the Editor on April 2nd, 2018
In southern Alberta, the Ministry of Alberta Environment (AEP) has arbitrarily cancelled a number of water licenses that have been in effect for generations. The sudden cancellation jeopardizes the agricultural operations that relied on those water licenses. In one particular example, on the pretext that a rancher’s nearly two-decade-old license was not complete, the AEP ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Black bear hunt unethical, unscientific, unnecessary
By Letter to the Editor on March 29th, 2018
The spring black bear hunt starts April 1 and will inevitably orphan cubs. Alberta Environment and Albeta Parks failed to produce the bear rehabilitation protocol that they had committed to. Thus, cubs will be killed under the orders of the executive director of Fish and Wildlife Policy. This is unethical, unscientific, unnecessary and unacceptable, why ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!He came to teach, heal
By Letter to the Editor on March 28th, 2018
There was this man called Jesus He walked the Holy Land. He came to teach and heal us Throughout the desert sand. He walked the Holy Land. Jesus came to help and guide us The apostles loved and worshipped Him As He walked the Holy Land. People came and needed cure Jesus helped them to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Concerned by this council
By Letter to the Editor on March 28th, 2018
What did Medicine Hat learn from the last civic election? We had some level of change on council, but maybe not enough. The 2017 fiasco over transit and specifically the temporary relocation of the Fourth Street bust stop to the Esplanade could have brought council down, but it didn’t. What else is there to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP fixing an inherited mess
By Letter to the Editor on March 28th, 2018
Re: “Tax-and-spend socialist job creation at work,” March 22 My circle of friends and I are all seniors and were all long-time conservative supporters who stopped supporting them when Klein came on the scene. We all supported the NDP in the last election to put a stop to the horrific mess we were being forced ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How do we deal with honour killings?
By Letter to the Editor on March 26th, 2018
Re: “Deportation just shifts the problem somewhere else,” March 20 What a minefield of controversy this editorial evokes, without even a hint of a solution to the problem. First and foremost it must be remembered that citizenship of a country other than your birth is a privilege not a right. So how do we deal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!You may have missed a lot during World Water Week
By Letter to the Editor on March 26th, 2018
Canada Water Week is celebrated each year the third week in March and includes World Water Day on March 22. For more than 10 years now, several local organizations have participated by setting up displays in public areas about a wide variety of topics relating to water. This year the displays were in the Public ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Corporate Canada makes valuable contributions to our economy
By Letter to the Editor on March 26th, 2018
A school of thought prevails that corporate profit is somehow suspicious. It is argued that corporate entities are only driven by profit. The impression is left that the well-being of its employees is minimized, that its product or service is of the lowest quality and that the environment is completely ignored. Unquestionably the economy will ... Read More »
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