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Re: Housing for the homeless comes with value to taxpayers; Letters to the editor, Letters, July 8
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One factor generally neglected of the homeless camp dialogue is the price of doing nothing. Leaving unhoused individuals to reside on the road prices society a number of cash within the type of emergency providers, well being care, the prison justice system, and so forth.
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Essentially the most direct and evidence-based resolution is to fund cheap housing for them. It’s a traditional case of “an oz of prevention is value a pound of remedy.” Not solely is it extra humane to fund housing for the unhoused, however additionally it is cheaper!
Louis Axelson, Calgary
Canadian health-care system is sick
Re: Saskatchewan has longest waits in Canada for hip, knee surgical procedures; July 8
One other appalling failure of our vaunted health-care system together with household medical doctors, EMRs, and so on. What if medicare was operated by a non-public insurer that took your premiums for years after which didn’t ship? Think about the uproar within the press and parliament, the lawsuits within the hundreds of thousands.
Even these most proof against altering medicare have to be having doubts. What shouldn’t be unsure is that making the aged wait in ache for extended durations is heartless and immoral.
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Robert Mitchell, Calgary
Previous-time music wished for oldtimers
Re: Stampede has let down metropolis’s seniors, Letter, July 6
Peter Whitehead lamented the choice to mix Seniors’ Day with Group Day. Whereas I agree with him, I’m extra disheartened by the entire lack of any musical acts which attraction to these of us over the age of fifty.
I settle for the truth that venues similar to Nashville North will largely cater to the under-35 “social gathering hearty” crowd, however one would anticipate that different levels might supply one or two acts that seniors take pleasure in. I’m 68, and I’m definitely not hurrying right down to the grounds to see somebody named “Pitbull” and even Tegan and Sara, as a lot as I love their perseverance and exhausting work in making a profession from their begin in our metropolis.
Philip E. Carr, Calgary
Cheeky parade entry not family-friendly
This 12 months’s Stampede parade I attended with a number of members of the family, together with my two sons. One of many entries confirmed publicity to their butts which was very inappropriate for this parade and viewers on TV. Their ceremonial costume ought to have been saved for a cultural parade, not the Stampede Parade.
It is a world-class occasion, and that was very inappropriate.
Jennifer Thompson, Calgary