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Letters, July 14: Time for actual change, not simply speak

I used to be referred for a hip substitute on the South Well being Campus in June 2022. At the moment, I used to be informed 15-18 months for a surgical seek the advice of and 6-12 months after that for surgical procedure. I adopted up this morning and was informed no surgical seek the advice of for 20 months, and surgical procedure waits are 12 months after that.

That’s nearly three years of restricted mobility, which, at 74, is 20 per cent of my remaining life if I’m fortunate to make it to 94.

The UCP talks about change, however issues are getting worse. We’d like surgical capability, surgeons, nurses and, most of all, improved processes. It’s damaged badly and it’s time to repair it.

Dave Craig, Calgary

Some would somewhat pay for airport parking than have a practice hyperlink

Re: UCP funding examine into airport-to-Calgary rail hyperlink, July 11

As an alternative of spending tens of millions on an evaluation of a hyperlink between downtown and the airport, how about asking Calgarians their opinion?

I, for one, wouldn’t use it. Hauling baggage and carry-ons and purses is tense sufficient with out getting a journey downtown, transferring baggage to the LRT then hauling them off with no assist on the airport.

A horrible waste of cash, for my part.

Sally Roenisch, Calgary

Not all the things golden in Denver

Re: Calgary and Denver share similarities; However Colorado metropolis leads in financial progress, Opinion, July 1

I’m unsure the column author had been to Denver. We have been there a few years in the past and stayed at Union Station within the coronary heart of downtown. There have been boulders on all of the boulevards to cease residents from placing up tents. Nobody was allowed to go on the state legislature’s garden due to the homeless subject. 

We walked up seventeenth Avenue (their Stephen Avenue) for breakfast. There was no one on the road. Bikers ignored crimson lights as a result of the site visitors was so minimal.

Sure, they’ve nice museums, an MLB workforce and a few fairly areas. They do, nevertheless, have important points that I’m glad Calgary doesn’t have.

Invoice Peddlesden, Chestermere

T-shirt photograph criticism is ‘grandstanding’

It’s apparent Conservative chief Pierre Poilievre and Premier Danielle Smith unwittingly posed with an ignorant fellow sporting a “Straight Satisfaction” T-shirt throughout a Stampede breakfast. Ought to their handlers have intervened? Completely. However a lot of these opportune pictures occur rapidly and a whole lot of occasions at main public occasions.

Each Poilievre and Smith have supported LGBTQ rights. The one that must be ashamed right here is the man within the T-shirt and Lizette Tejada, the NDP critic for LGBTQ points. She attacked Smith, saying she has a historical past of “amplifying messages of hate and intolerance.” What nonsense. Tejada and lots of of her NDP colleagues have to be taught the distinction between respectable criticism and political grandstanding. 

Nancy Forbes, Calgary