Letters to the Editor
Where’s the concern about AISH payments?
By Letter to the Editor on December 16th, 2019
Hello, Albertans. There have been lots posted about deindexing AISH. How many people are aware of how much an increase at the cost of inflation would have cost Albertans? The math is this: 46,000 x $32 = less than $1.5 million a year and less than $7million over four years. Now Kenney’s so-called “war room” ... Read More »
8 responsesMinor hockey needs to grow up
By Letter to the Editor on December 13th, 2019
I have had my two kids in Medicine Hat Minor Hockey Association (MHMHA) for the past five-plus years and have some suggestions. The association is about 1,000 kids and run by volunteers. It’s basically affordable and people are trying their best. But there are some big problems that everyone seems to talk about in rumours ... Read More »
2 responsesUnions should take their arguments to the boards
By Letter to the Editor on December 13th, 2019
The government does not lay off teachers and nurses, the boards do. There has been much coverage in the news as of late on how the government is laying off teachers and nurses. As a UNIFOR shop steward, I understand that the public sector unions have an important role to play in protecting the jobs ... Read More »
3 responsesCherry a conservative voice for the right
By Letter to the Editor on December 11th, 2019
I was very disgusted when Don Cherry was let go by Hockey Night in Canada. He was one of very few broadcasters who reported everything without exaggerating or covering anything up. I always looked forward to hearing what he would bring forth every Saturday night. I seemed to learn a lot from this man over ... Read More »
7 responsesClimate change ‘science’ is just politics
By Letter to the Editor on December 11th, 2019
The global warming agenda has, from its beginning, disguised itself as real science. This movement began as a toxic union of wealth redistribution ideology and global governance ambitions. However, selling this unwelcome message to the world was a difficult challenge. But at that time, new environmental alarms were gaining traction and the fear factor associated ... Read More »
1 responseAHS needs to review delivery model, revisit changes
By Letter to the Editor on December 11th, 2019
Dear Mr. Kenney, Alberta Health Services (AHS) is broken and has been for many years. Every elected government has tried and failed to make permanent and sustainable changes to it. I believe the “expert committee” was window dressing for what the Kenney UCP government intended to do anyway all along. AHS needs to review their ... Read More »
1 responseMoney for nothing
By Letter to the Editor on December 11th, 2019
Two UCP party members were elected to represent the Medicine Hat area. Both were very outspoken about what they would do to represent this area if elected. Both were elected. Both have done little if not nothing. They have travelled and found places to live in Edmonton. Both bill meals and expenses to the taxpayers. ... Read More »
1 responseThinking columnist ‘doth protest too much’
By Letter to the Editor on December 9th, 2019
Re: “Non-stop rhetoric from UCP,” Nov. 16 I would categorize Scott Schmidt’s column in the middle of November as a case of “love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference,” especially judging from Ticked Off & Tickled Pink comments and letters to the editor that followed, those in his defence and otherwise. It ... Read More »
12 responsesProvincial tests are only useful as a political tool
By Letter to the Editor on December 9th, 2019
It is interesting that Bill 22 passed the Legislature so quickly even though, with the exception of the premier and the UCP, the Albertans it directly affects don’t want to have anything to do with it. I am referring to the people who are having their pensions taken over by the government. The UCP maintain ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Amazed Albertans are letting the UCP get away with this
By Letter to the Editor on December 6th, 2019
Was anyone in Alberta prepared for what Jason Kenney and his government unleashed on our province since the provincial election this spring? I wonder if those who voted for the UCP understood they were voting for the changes that are being implemented. Legislation that protected the rights of workers disappearing, collective agreement obligations being dismissed ... Read More »
9 responsesHow did Cherry last for so long?
By Letter to the Editor on December 4th, 2019
The “firing” of Don Cherry and the way the media treated the event as if it was an Earth-shaking, not-to-be- ignored, very important, major sports-related catastrophe, somehow equal to another ice age on the way, the end of hockey reporting and analysis, was a totally exaggerated hullabaloo. All I can say it’s a wonder it ... Read More »
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