To the Editor

Dear Editor,

I never know whether your readers take letters like the one last week (‘Let’s Set the Record Straight, Eh?’) seriously. If any do, I hope they and the writer will take a further straightening of the record in good part.

I have followed the protests in my hometown of Portland, Oregon over the last few months. There the ‘Antifa’ (a barbarous neologism) made an abortive attempt to burn down the condominium building in which the mayor and many other people

Dear Editor,

Exactly eleven years after Canada signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), March 11, the government of Canada passed the amended Bill C7 regarding “MAiD.” This bill relaxes most safeguards around euthanasia, such that one no longer has to be at the end of life to have state-approved assisted suicide. One only needs some type of disability or disease that is “unbearable.” The Bill includes “medical assistance in dying

Dear Editor,

It is infuriatingly unfair that the government does not honour the benchmarks, which it clearly laid out, on February 8th, in its own “Four Step Plan.” Currently, out of a population of nearly 4.5 million people here in Alberta, there are only 257 people hospitalized because they have COVID. Our society is already below the less than 300 people hospitalized target, which, supposedly, indicates that we should be in Stage 3 of the outlined progress towards reinstating the

Dear Editor,

Re: “Don’t be swayed by rumours...” Feb 24/21

Parliament is on the verge of expanding euthanasia and assisted suicide (euphemised as MAiD) in the next few days. It might have gone to final vote by the time this letter is printed. While last week’s writer was accurate in his description of the safeguards of assisted suicide in the current law, the new Bill C7 will wipe most of those away. The new proposed law is a dramatic expansion of assisted suicide, removi