Dear Editor,

The following is an excerpt from an editorial by Will Ferguson (award winning author) (Calgary Herald). “We have emptied the asylums-but to what effect? The other extreme, after all, is equally fatal. Mental illness is real. It is not a “lifestyle”, it is not a “choice”. Those who would treat it as such run the risk of enabling the mentally ill to death, illness requires treatment. The great cruelty of mental illness is that it attacks the very decision

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Dear Editor,

We were guests of a local business at the Premier’s dinner at Hanna recently. The hall was filled to capacity with enthusiastic Conservatives. Hanna is a community of strong people as only the tenacious have survived through the generations. They were doing pretty good recently, that is until the NDP were elected. I wish that it was possible to have an exchange program with Edmonton and even Calgary where some of their citizens could learn of the harm that the socialist NDP di

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Dear Editor,

The Trudeau government will stop at nothing to control what Canadians see online.

Through Bill C-11, the government is seeking to expand the mandate of the CRTC so that unelected bureaucrats will have the power to define and regulate what counts as “Canadian content” on the Internet.

Bill C-11 would effectively leave it in the hands of these content gatekeepers to promote certain types of content while throttling content the government doesn’t like.

Clearly, this l

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Dear Editor,

Since my emergence into adulthood, I don’t believe I’ve ever been so aware of such a hot political scene. But comparatively, most Canadians are still fairly ambivalent about it. Sure, we truly do have more political engagement than we did three years ago. Covid threw us into chaos and many, like myself, suddenly became aware of the fact that the government could affect my everyday life far more than I had expected.

However, is it enough?

Our media has proven itself to ha

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