Dear Editor,

To: Family, Friends, Farmers and Fire Departments

It’s grass fire season, and it hits some of us more than others, and often at the most inopportune times.

On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, I had taken a few days to visit family out of town, and I started to receive calls that there was a fire at our rural property west of Three Hills. That is certainly a way of taking the joy out of being gone from home. Then I received calls of family, friends, farmers and fire departments coming

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Dear Editor,

With reference to the recent letter concerning Banks financing oil and gas projects. While I appreciate the writer’s right to hold an opinion on this subject I totally disagree with his sentiments.

Although the environmental lobby in BC has lost virtually all the lawsuits they have raised against Oil and Gas projects in the province, they have now switched to shaming and bullying banks who loan money to oil companies for oil and gas projects.

Banks should be free to loan money

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Dear Editor,

Where do you bank? Does it make a difference? Perhaps you started at one bank because someone you knew suggested a particular one. Or you found the tellers and money lenders more friendly there.

If you have savings, you might have found that one bank gives you a better return, or the mortgage rate at another gives you a slightly better rate.

But you should really know something more about your bank than that.

Did you know that the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is now the biggest bank i

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Dear Editor,

Disney World, in Orlando, is the largest taxpayer in the state of Florida. It employs approximately 75,000 people, with plans to expand, creating even more jobs in the next few years.

It is a happy place, whose main goal is to entertain. Last year, then-CEO Bob Capek made a comment that ruffled some feathers, concerning a Florida law dubbed, “Don’t Say Gay.” The measure bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade,

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