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Letters, Aug. 8: Zoos serve key function in defending polar bears

Re: Polar bears belong within the wild, Letters, Aug. 3

The remark “You’ll be able to observe them in Churchill” jogs my memory of Marie Antoinette’s alleged, “Allow them to eat cake.”

Not everybody can afford to go to Churchill to look at these magnificent creatures. Sure, a zoo does permit the general public to see animals on show. However a zoo additionally rescues animals that might not survive within the wild, plus they do scientific analysis for species conservation.

AZA-accredited zoos (together with the Calgary Zoo, which can be a part of the Wilder Institute) and aquariums band collectively to focus their collective experience and leverage their huge audiences to avoid wasting species. The polar bears in a zoo are ambassadors for his or her cousins within the wild.

Harvey Taphorn, Calgary

Authorities should make last health-care selections

Re: Courtroom guidelines UCP violated the regulation as the ultimate decision-maker on COVID mandates, Aug. 2

The federal government should be the ultimate decision-maker for good cause: sources are restricted and the allocation of such is a political resolution, not a medical one.

If the chief medical officer of well being was the decision-maker and her mandate was solely public well being outcomes, she can be searching for zero deaths and no sickness. She might then decree hospitals be constructed, nurses and medical doctors employed, and power the federal government to supply funds to take action. More cash for most cancers/kidney/and so forth. analysis, all hospitals inside seven minutes of everybody’s home, and the listing goes on.

Folks might not prefer it, however well being selections contain a stability of funds and different concerns versus outcomes. Additional, if the CMOH was the only real decision-maker as a non-political determine, she can be topic to extra court docket challenges, as folks would level to different jurisdictions which have made totally different selections with higher outcomes.

The court docket might have dominated in opposition to the federal government, however Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s unwavering stance that she supplied recommendation was the right place. The regulation needs to be modified to mirror it.

Jason New, Calgary

Non-public well being care already exists

Re: Clinic halts plan to cost charges for quicker entry to household physician; Premier had vowed to superb or shut facility if it applied a membership program, Aug. 2

I don’t fairly perceive the fuss in regards to the Marda Loop non-public well being care. If one Googles non-public well being care in Calgary, a variety of them pop up. Is Marda Loop someway worse or does no person care that the others exist?

Non-public well being care exists in Alberta and it’s time we acknowledged it and made it a dialog.

Focusing on renewables is hypocritical

I feel it might behoove Affordability and Utilities Minister Nathan Neudorf to focus on getting oil and fuel firms to scrub up the mess they’ve left with orphan wells relatively than pausing the fledgling clear power sector.

Neudorf additionally states “Among the conversations we’ve had from some stakeholders say . . . Alberta has a little bit of a Wild, Wild West really feel to it on this.” That’s wealthy coming from the social gathering that prides itself on simply that.

I assume solely fossil gas supporters are allowed to be mavericks within the eyes of the UCP.

Katie Pearlman, Calgary