Letters to the Editor
Letter: Albertans deserve better health care now
By Letter to the Editor on February 22nd, 2025
More than half a million Albertans don’t have a family doctor, stressed families are waiting for hours in the emergency room with sick children and frail seniors are living in pain for months, or even years, awaiting much-needed surgery. We expect our government to be urgently working to address these pressing health-care issues. But what ... Read More »
5 responsesLetter: Enjoy good news when you can because it’s a scary time for Alberta and Canadians
By Letter to the Editor on February 22nd, 2025
Dear editor, There’s an old Anne Murray song called, “A Little Good News” and recent stories in the News regarding Saamis Solar Park seemed like just a little bit of such. It’s great to know our city will hopefully be the owner and beneficiary of the largest solar power field in a Canadian city. In ... Read More »
2 responsesLetter: Speak up to protect our water and land from proposed coal mine
By Letter to the Editor on February 19th, 2025
Dear editor, I am writing to urge all concerned citizens to take immediate action regarding the proposed coal mine on the Eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. This region, known for its pristine beauty and vital natural resources, is under threat from a project that could have devastating environmental and economic consequences. The proposed mine ... Read More »
7 responsesLetter: ‘Socialist’ has been misdefined and hijacked by the Poilievre-led Conservative Party
By Letter to the Editor on February 18th, 2025
Dear editor, The word “socialist” has become an undeserved electioneering slur used by the Conservative Party of Canada and Medicine Hat-Cardston Warner MP Glen Motz. I consider CPC Leader Pierre Poilievre’s political speech equating socialism with Naziism at the recent 80th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, to be unstatesmanlike and very ... Read More »
3 responsesLetter: Mark Carney is not the man to build a strong a free Canada
By Letter to the Editor on February 18th, 2025
Dear editor Besides CBC, almost all news, entertainment and information come from four private companies, and their stock is owned by major Canadian banking and business oligarchs. These are the “established media.” In my opinion, these media oligarchies have been shaping news to their own advantage and to our detriment. I no longer trust them. ... Read More »
3 responsesLetter: Trudeau hypocritically fights anti-democratic oligarchs while shutting down government here
By Letter to the Editor on February 13th, 2025
Dear editor, It is a hard choice to decide who may be the bigger fools. Canadians for accepting a tax as a means to reverse climate change, or, Americans who think they can reverse their debt load by enacting tariffs. While Justin Trudeau continues to rail against anti-democratic oligarchs, he single handily has shut down ... Read More »
4 responsesLetter: Canadians must not be fooled by the goals of Trump, Musk
By Letter to the Editor on February 13th, 2025
Dear editor, Our neighbour to south of the 49th is in the midst of a coup launched by Donald Trump and his DOGE henchman, Elon Musk. No other word accurately captures the fast-paced and unlawful attacks against U.S. government institutions. Trump has launched a scorched-earth campaign against the federal government institutions – Project 2025. As ... Read More »
1 responseLetter: Commentary just the ramblings of ‘a sad survivor of a dead and dying woke left-wing abolition’
By Letter to the Editor on February 12th, 2025
Dear editor, Mr. Schmidt, I am unknowing if your recent pontification, was a deliberate effort to rouse your left-wing support or were you attempting to play your version of a simple-minded game with those of us, unlike yourself, who actually understand politics and the workings of government; you obviously don’t. In fact, you have a ... Read More »
2 responsesLetter: Great civilizations take care of their weakest citizens, and it isn’t happening in Alberta right now
By Letter to the Editor on February 12th, 2025
Dear editor, The Alberta Government announced last week a new program called Alberta Disability Assistant Program (ADAP), which will see some people on AISH (Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped) moved into that program. Who goes into the program will be determined by a pool of government assessors, or your own doctor, who will fill ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: It’s the aggregate efforts of us all that moves mountains
By Letter to the Editor on February 12th, 2025
Dear editor, I read a fascinating online article this week about New York. After one month of their new congestion pricing for vehicles driving into Manhattan (daytime fees of $9 with a monthly pass, $15 without the pass), it’s doing exactly what it was designed to do; reducing traffic, getting more people onto public transit ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Letter: Column on our place in Canada thoughtfully spoke to how many feel
By Letter to the Editor on February 12th, 2025
Dear editor, Scott Schmidt’s article in Saturday’s Medicine Hat News should have been on the front page. I felt he expressed our current political situation in Alberta very well. I am grateful to have been born in Canada. I started out in Saskatchewan and it is still dear to me. I have lived here in ... Read More »
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