Letters to the Editor
Brooks health priorities being matched by AHS
By Letter to the Editor on December 5th, 2018
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is grateful for its partnership with the Brooks and District Health Foundation. The foundation has shown outstanding commitment to enhancing patient care in Brooks. Since the foundation’s fundraising campaign for a hemodialysis unit began, the health-care needs of the community have changed. As the organization responsible for health-care services in the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Local education decision making has disappeared
By Letter to the Editor on December 4th, 2018
On Nov. 20 Education Minister David Eggan said. “We know that having local decisions on the ground actually makes life better for kids and makes life better for Alberta families today.” He was slamming moves by other provinces to eliminate, amalgamate school boards. Apparently the irony of Minister Eggan’s statement escapes him. He sees no ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Birds could be threatened by proposed off-leash areas
By Letter to the Editor on December 3rd, 2018
It is with alarm that I read in the Medicine Hat News Nov. 20 that discussions are taking place to create off-leash dog areas in two of Medicine Hat’s very special natural areas, namely the part of Strathcona Island Park between the pavilion and Highway 41A, and Saratoga Park along Seven Persons Creek. The Saamis ... Read More »
4 responsesCarbon pricing effective in lowering greenhouse gas emissions
By Letter to the Editor on December 3rd, 2018
Not everyone with a conservative political background is against a price on greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon taxes or cap and trade systems. Preston Manning, past leader of the Reform party, and Jim Dinning, past Alberta treasurer under Progressive Conservative governments, are on the advisory board for the Ecofiscal Commission. This commission was formed ... Read More »
3 responsesUnruly group spoils night out at bar
By Letter to the Editor on December 1st, 2018
On Nov. 25 I went to a local bar to enjoy a few beers and a steak sandwich while watching the Grey Cup game. I ran into a couple friends who joined me whereby we began an enjoyable conversation while watching the game. It was here that the enjoyable evening ended. Sitting behind me were ... Read More »
3 responsesConservatives responsible for current mess in Alberta
By Letter to the Editor on December 1st, 2018
From 1935 to 2015 Albertans overwhelmingly and unfailingly chose conservative governments for their legislature. And they consistently sent conservatives of one flavour or another to Ottawa, with only a few exceptions. One could be forgiven, then, if one were to conclude that Alberta was immutably conservative. Clearly, based on the election of 2015, this is ... Read More »
4 responsesSociety must protect the vulnerable
By Letter to the Editor on November 30th, 2018
Dec. 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This year I am wondering who the disabled really are. I feel more and more comfortable with my peers, the mental health consumers and the autistic spectrum community. I am aghast as the media portray both these groups as to be feared and dangerous. The reality ... Read More »
3 responsesLiberals increase their public relations arm
By Letter to the Editor on November 29th, 2018
Surely I am not the only one who has noticed the federal government now owns a piece of every media outlet in Canada to the tune of $600 million. The public relations arm of the Liberal government just grew by a magnitude of 10. The media, of course, are beating their breasts, gnashing their teeth ... Read More »
1 responsePredicting a sloppy, muddy, mucky spring
By Letter to the Editor on November 28th, 2018
Democracy is a game of inches. To believe in democracy is to accept that you, the individual, will probably never get exactly what you want. A shared vision of Canada’s future, common goals, compromise, respect and adversarial fellowship, grease the bearings of a healthy, functioning democratic system. The lawfully attained will of the majority of ... Read More »
1 responseBanishment of Jewish people in Britain did take place, but it’s over now
By Letter to the Editor on November 28th, 2018
Re: “Jewish people still in England,” Nov. 26 It was possibly more of an “assumption.” I should have known, I suppose, the old saying that if one breaks “assume” into three syllables, like in ass-u-me … well, what can I say. I wrongly “assumed” that most folks would know that the Jewish people would eventually ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Why is David Eggen waiting on his GSA edict?
By Letter to the Editor on November 28th, 2018
Education Minister David Eggen has neither the political will, political support of the National Democratic … oops, New Democrats, nor the internal fortitude to follow through on his threat to defund Christian schools with the audacity to defy his gay-straight alliances edict. If he did indeed have the support of those around him, why is ... Read More »
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