Letters, April 28: Putting PSAC employee calls for not unreasonable

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I’m an worker of Canada Income Company and a member of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. I’m a time period worker and our contracts are renewed after strict analysis. It isn’t a given that every one authorities staff have safe jobs.

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Our wage proposal of 4.5 per cent per yr works out to a rise of lower than $12 a day, or $1.40 an hour. For a few of our members on the decrease finish of the pay scale, these wages don’t meet the edge for a dwelling wage. Because the meals inflation price has been above 10 per cent for almost a yr, an additional $100 a paycheque could make all of the distinction.

If different sectors should not have truthful wages or advantages, then they need to work to convey consideration to their unlivable wages as an alternative of guilt-tripping us.

Working from residence takes away pointless bills of commuting. It may be financially useful for employers to hire smaller locations. I believe we should always fear about individuals affording life reasonably than empty business area and making the wealthy extra wealthy.

We respect our employer and our job and collaborated to earn a living from home when COVID hit. Working from residence didn’t have an effect on the standard of our service and needs to be a alternative for staff. Shifting ahead with new viable choices in altering instances is progress.

Blame Sutter for Flames’ failings

Re: The place all of it went fallacious for Flames hockey, April 20

I’m no skilled, however the purpose for the Flames’ poor outcomes is that they have been enjoying the fallacious recreation.

That they had the best variety of pictures on objective in dropping battles within the NHL as a result of they have been capturing from too far-off, so the goalies normally had time to react. Their finest stickhandlers wasted their vitality preventing for the puck alongside the boards reasonably than in entrance of the web.

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Their energy play all the time began with a gradual predictable march up the ice.

Their 3-on-3 in OT regarded like they’d by no means practised it. The fallacious recreation is on the coach.

Rudy Kaethler, Calgary

Hen deaths overblown

How and why are just a few dozen birds useless in an oilsands tailings pond making nationwide information? Contemplate that the duck harvest by hunters within the decrease 48 U.S. states alone was 11.14 million birds killed in 2020-21. The Alberta Vitality Regulator and the Globe are making an excessive amount of of a small variety of useless birds. We should ask why.

Do they report the variety of birds, particularly raptors, killed by wind generators? Do they report the variety of birds killed by flying into energy traces and transmission towers? Do they report the variety of birds killed by flying into buildings, residential home windows, farm silos, and so on.? Do they report the variety of birds killed by home cats?

In america alone, out of doors cats kill roughly 2.4 billion birds yearly in response to the American Hen Conservancy.

 Mike Priaro, Calgary