To the Editor

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

To the Editor,

1. Why is there such an intense desire to finance the Horseshoe Canyon development when it has little interest or payback? Given this project was decided at an in camera session; the public had very little input into this project. Please justify how spending 1.35 million on top of the purchase price when there is a 1.3 million deficit in the current budget is feasible.

2. Why is there an increase in councillor pay for 2019 of $63,668 from $48,261 in 2018 especially when many counc

To the Editor,

Re: “Alberta in particular will suffer”

The author of that letter is a strong Trump supporter who continues to spread misinformation (false narratives; alternate facts) about Trump, about the presidential election results of Nov. 4, 2020, about BLM (Black Lives Matter), and about Antifa.

Let’s set the record straight, eh? There is no such organization called Antifa. The word is associated with people who are opposed to fascism. Fascism as we have seen in Hitler&r

Dear Editor,

Your correspondence the last two weeks has discussed the current virus, ‘this devastating (and very real) pandemic.’ Its virulence can be measured only by statistics in context. Let’s look at them.

In the ten-and-a-half months since the first case was confirmed, we’ve had about 120,000 cases. That sounds like a lot, but is only 3% of our total population (4.3 million).

A little more than 26,000 people died in this province from all causes during 2019. In ten-