January 1st, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Constitution should apply to those living, but not yet born

By Letter to the Editor on June 2nd, 2022

Dear editor, Cash Moore (who usually makes a lot of sense) is probably right in saying there is no worry about Canada restricting access to abortion (while we worry about an aging population). However, it is questionable to allege that restricting abortion is unconstitutional. The constitution, if observed as it should be, guarantees Canadians the ... Read More »

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Letter: Stop relying on social media for information

By Letter to the Editor on June 2nd, 2022

Dear editor, What is responsible news media? Responsible news media is radio, TV and newspapers who, if an error is detected in their distribution or dissemination, correct the error as soon as it is detected. Other media, who are not as bound to honesty or factual information, do not retract anything. Instead, they manufacture items, ... Read More »

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Letter: Fed up with ease of gun accessibility across North America

By Letter to the Editor on May 31st, 2022

Dear editor, Claims that it is difficult to control guns is a repeated response from politicians in North America after a mass shooting. But nothing concrete ever really changes, despite proposed regulations to prevent future massacres. However, there really is one very simple solution, although extremely controversial, (and very unpopular for some), and that is ... Read More »

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Letter: Leader may change, but regime will stay the same

By Letter to the Editor on May 25th, 2022

In response to Scott Schmidt’s May 21 column, “What could be worse than Jason Kenney?” Dear editor, The facts recounted in Mr. Schmidt’s editorial are correct. During the last three years, anyone paying attention will have observed the choices made by the UCP, and the dismal outcomes from those choices. The most dismal outcome of ... Read More »

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Letter: Is this the end of the merge?

By Letter to the Editor on May 25th, 2022

Dear editor, Premier Jason Kenney is temporary now. The vote put him over the threshold, but 51.4% is insufficient to address the divisions in the party. They would have continued. He made the right choice. The next leader will have the challenges of unifying the members, identifying the governing team for the short term and ... Read More »

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Letter: Let’s make helping out Ukraine a Medicine Hat and area community effort

By Letter to the Editor on May 17th, 2022

To our community and area, We believe there must be many in our community and area who would like to help some Ukrainian evacuee families from Mariupol that would like to settle here in Medicine Hat. I’m sure you can imagine the amount of help our group needs to make this happen. Immigration, flights, transportation, ... Read More »

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Letter: Long live the idea of true progressive conservatism

By Letter to the Editor on May 10th, 2022

Dear editor, As a young adult I was always amused by the term ‘Progressive Conservative’. To my youthful ear it always sounded like a pathetic attempt by a bunch of older businesspeople to appeal to a younger, more energetic crowd – and failing. I was, of course, a young ‘progressive’ expecting to see social and ... Read More »

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Letter: Bank of Canada made a mistake

By Letter to the Editor on May 5th, 2022

Dear editor, Make no mistake I am a rigorous defender of our National Bank but at times I believe they make mistakes which I simply do not understand. The most recent one ( in my opinion ) occurred on April 19 when the federal government announced its intent to issue a U.S.-dollar-denominated global bond the ... Read More »

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Letter: Some schooling on charter schools

By Letter to the Editor on May 5th, 2022

Dear editor, In a previous “Ticked Off, Tickled Pink” there were two commentaries on charter schools. (1) “Charter schools… this is privatization… this will cause families to pay out huge amounts… for schooling.”(2) “…charter schools… Albertans don’t want their government subsidizing private education.” I am no longer on the CAPE School board, but I feel ... Read More »

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Letter: Medicine Hat’s first responders do great work

By Letter to the Editor on May 4th, 2022

Dear editor, I am so very pleased with our city police officers, as I realize their positions to be very dangerous, plus they are all so well appearing and treat all citizens with respect. They are called out at any hour – Will I return home? Who is in this home? I must speed to ... Read More »

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Letter: Putin out to recreate ‘glory’ of Soviet Union

By Letter to the Editor on May 4th, 2022

Dear editor, Vladimir Putin, like Stalin before him… like Kruschev, Breshnev and all the other communist dictators before him, will understand only one ‘threat,’ the threat of the willingness and preparedness by NATO to stand and fight. Remember when Nikita Kruschev shipped all those ballistic missiles to Cuba? It took the direct threat by President ... Read More »

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