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Letters, June 21: Mutts want love, too

Re: You’re not in Britain anymore, Toto: Iconic breed on verge of extinction, June 17

I hope that the lower in designer canine is as a result of people are getting rescue canine of which there are 1000’s to select from.

The Humane Society and quite a few rescue operations are pleading for fosters or house owners to step ahead to provide these pups a house.

Sally Roenisch, Calgary

Made the perfect of the blackout as nobody to name

The Dalhousie neighbourhood needed to endure {an electrical} black-out beginning at about 4:30 p.m. on Father’s Day and lasting for about 11.5 hours. Properly, with 4 dinner visitors arriving at 6 p.m. and planning to prepare dinner on the range and within the oven, we swiftly needed to change plans – cooking batches on a propane BBQ and discovering as many candles and candle holders as we had stashed away ages in the past. It turned a profitable and romantic candlelight dinner three-quarters of an hour later than deliberate.

We may have gone on the web, on our cell, to seek out out and study when the state of affairs could also be rectified. However the place to start out? The Metropolis, Enmax or our wholesale electrical energy provider (which isn’t Enmax)? The Alberta electrical energy service system is so full of varied suppliers {that a} buyer has a tough time determining who to contact when the service fails.

Had the lengthy blackout occurred throughout a winter deep freeze, there would have been huge buyer complaints by the third hour of the blackout.

Kurt J. Hansen, Calgary

Costly telephone service not wished

I’m upset that one other Alberta agency has been taken over. I give up AGT after they offered out and have become Telus. Now it’s Shaw.

When the so-called merger was introduced, all of us obtained a pleasing electronic mail advising us to not fear that nothing will change. This week I obtained an electronic mail giving us an early alternative to vary over to Roger’s coast-to-coast service, and that it’s going to finally occur, so why not be an early chicken?

I’m 93 years outdated, and I had an inexpensive Shaw plan which gave me all of the service I wanted. It was inexpensive and match into my mounted earnings. I fell twice in our yard whereas weeding my spouse’s backyard and if not for the telephone to name for assist, I might have bothered 911.

I would like coast-to-coast protection like I would like one other stroke so why ought to I be pressured to signal on to a plan I’ll by no means use? 

John La Brier, Calgary