Letters, July 8: Housing for homeless comes with price

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Re: Homeless camps are unacceptable, Opinion, July 5

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In her column, conservative commentator Tasha Kheiriddin advocates placing “a roof over their heads” for the unhoused, as a part of an anti-homelessness camp technique.

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I assume, since housing prices cash, that she is advocating both or each of the next: Large tax will increase on companies and the rich; or slicing or privatizing important providers corresponding to hospitals, colleges, and many others.

It’s refreshing to listen to conservatives advocate for greater taxes and fewer providers.

Chris Stolz, Vancouver

Somebody must corral Cowboys’ noise

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Pressure finish to port strike

Re: Union tells Ottawa to not intervene in B.C. port strike; Enterprise teams need legislated finish to dispute, July 4

Relating to the strike on the B.C. port, what’s the distinction between this and the border blockade at Coutts?

Blocking crucial infrastructure negatively impacts tens of millions of individuals.

Ron Strem, Calgary

Newspapers must be saved

Many newspapers have gone into retirement, together with my hometown paper, the Coleraine Albion.

An Austrian paper, Wiener Zeitung, simply ceased manufacturing. First revealed in 1703, it was acknowledged because the oldest paper nonetheless being revealed. We want extra papers, particularly bodily ones, and so the demise of the longest-lasting paper is a superb loss.

A newspaper supplies the information, some advertisements, a variety of sports activities, however its most important profit is that it connects the area people as everybody reads it. They supply the tales that make an occasion greater than only a title and date, however part of a group’s historical past.

Dennis Fitzgerald, Melbourne, Australia

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Assist get newcomers to work

Final weekend, an immigrant case employee advised me that newcomers to Calgary are determined to get into English LINC lessons, however the ready record is six months and longer. This hampers their seek for jobs and housing, leaving a lot of them remoted.

Expert {and professional} newcomers are eager to work and contribute to their new nation. But they encounter obstacles to credentialing. All encounter that ubiquitous requirement for “Canadian expertise.”

I problem the minister for Immigration and Multiculturalism and the minister for Jobs, Financial system and Commerce to work collectively to handle these pressing issues. I suggest we use a few of Alberta’s giant budgetary surplus to profit each college college students and newcomers. Create a summer time jobs program for schooling college students to supply interim English lessons for newcomers. Pay them nicely — in spite of everything, tuition is excessive. Let’s get folks into lessons inside six weeks of arrival.

Moreover, provide companies incentives to tackle newcomers in a supervised mentorship program. Think about the rise in productiveness and monetary well-being for the newcomers, for our province and for Canada.

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Justine Foxall, Calgary

Concentrate on decrease emissions, not credit

Re: Emissions credit for LNG exports is a non starter, Opinion, July 6

The argument between international locations over which one really will get credit score for GHG reductions shouldn’t be a roadblock for tasks that cut back emissions globally. A discount is a discount, whether or not it’s in Europe, China, India or Canada.

Do the mathematics on the person inter-country tasks, and if world GHGs are decreased, then proceed. Let every nation take credit score and financial institution the credit, who cares, because the world will probably be slightly bit cleaner with every mission.

Observe the mathematics, it has no bias or ego.

Brian McConaghy, Heritage Pointe

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