Letters: Enforcement is a straightforward repair to extreme car noise

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I admire your article referring to metropolis noise and the response of the Metropolis of Calgary to attempt to mitigate the problem. On the finish of the day, it’s actually all thoughtless males giving themselves an ego increase by means of the sound of their annoying automobile or motorcycle.

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The overall drone of typical metropolis visitors is anticipated and crucial. However anytime somebody thinks it’s their proper to disturb or annoy one other, motion have to be taken.

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A simple and cost-effective answer can be to ban and make unlawful the act of altering any car exhaust system. There is no such thing as a purpose to take action. Ticket anybody with alterations and you’ve got a lot of the issue solved. And don’t make these tickets minor — a pair thousand {dollars} ought to do the trick. We might take it one step additional and guarantee all new automobiles meet the noise customary.

Why are we making this so tough when there’s a straightforward answer proper underneath our noses? Are we attempting to placate some ego pushed group? Appears so unusual as a society that we put up with this nonsense.

Michele Mathieu, Calgary

We’ll get what we voted for

Regardless of all of the unfavourable information, Albertans have properly re-elected a UCP authorities.

Whereas it’s true that the previous 4 years have offered probably the most dysfunctional and incompetent authorities I’ve ever seen, the UCP is now led by a brand new face with unconventional concepts and confirmed flexibility with actuality.

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Sixty years of just about uninterrupted conservative rule has by no means produced a balanced finances unbiased of oil revenues, has maintained our one-horse economic system and left nothing within the financial institution.

However at the very least they’ve given us low taxes. We’d hate to be like Norway, with our providers paid for by taxes and $1.4 trillion losing within the financial institution.

And the most effective information of all is that, if the Conservatives couldn’t be overwhelmed within the present election, then we’re assured of benefiting from one other 60 years of conservative rule and low taxes, of climate-change denial and the phantasm that oil will maintain going eternally.

Effectively accomplished, Albertans.

Geoffrey King, Calgary

A plea for less-volatile authorities

Arriving in Alberta in 1974 as an abroad emigrant, Alberta politics has at all times puzzled me — whilst an energetic Alberta political occasion contributor (2008-13) and a 2012 election candidate.

We’ve had 49 much less 4 years of conservative majority governments by and enormous resulting from rural votes. For the reason that finish of the Lougheed and Getty governments till the early Nineteen Nineties, it has steadily been unstable governing (booms and busts within the economic system and ongoing malfunctioning well being providers) by varied conservative governments. Add to that a number of Alberta premiers had been ousted by their occasion and now we’ve got a premier who seems to be non-trustworthy about her previous statements versus her current laws, pre-election goodies on the expense of the federal government income coffers, and her modified opinions of her election guarantees.

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Albertans want a steady and targeted authorities with the target of making a steady economic system with regular employment, a dependable health-care system and a a lot improved Okay-12 training system with max class sizes of 20. Let’s cross our fingers for that lastly taking place and that our authorities gained’t stray and commit its efforts to an Alberta pension plan and police pressure, and escalate Ottawa bashing, that are removed from the priorities of most Albertans.

Frankly, we’d like a provincial value-added tax to cushion the economic system from recurring booms and busts — one thing that respected economists have identified for many years.

Kurt Hansen, Calgary

Youngsters pay for mom’s wrongs

I discover it despicable that former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes gave delivery to 2 youngsters whereas understanding full nicely she can be going to jail. What sort of particular person leaves behind a two-year-old and a three-month-old to serve time for crimes she dedicated purely for financial achieve?

She is meant to serve 11 years for fraud. Her youngsters will solely know her from behind bars.

So unhappy.

Sally Roenisch