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Letters, June 30: Volunteers assist fill meals financial institution cabinets

An enormous congratulations to all of the Stampede volunteers who stepped as much as fill the cabinets on the Calgary Meals Financial institution within the Spaghetti Western Meals Financial institution Fundraiser. 

The pleasant competitors between all the varied committees introduced in a whole bunch of kilos of meals and greater than $9,000 in money donations. These volunteers are merely the perfect. 

Bigotry will not be non secular freedom

Re: Disagreement doesn’t equate to hate, Letter, June 23

Syed B. Soharwardy’s letter was ridiculous, and so, too, have been the protests towards LGBTQ consciousness. They have been cynically making an attempt to cover their bigotry behind non secular freedom, and we must always name it out as such.

The very fact is that LGBTQ folks exist and are worthwhile members of society. If you’re going out of your option to cover this from youngsters, then you make an energetic try and dehumanize them.

The concept that a five- or six-year-old can’t perceive gender or homosexuality is ridiculous. They’re completely able to understanding that some youngsters have two dads or two mothers, or that some persons are born as one intercourse after which change to a different. It actually isn’t sophisticated nor does it hurt youngsters to know that different persons are totally different.

The paradox of tolerance is that if we’re to protect a tolerant society, then we should not tolerate intolerance. Particularly if such intolerance tries to cover itself behind liberal values like non secular freedom.

Louis Axelson, Calgary

So begins the assault on public well being

As if it was not apparent when Adriana LaGrange was appointed minister of well being, the destiny of Dr. Deena Hinshaw confirms that the locus of selections on public well being resides with the premier and her acolytes on the unconventional fringe.

Cupboard appointments indicate that the assaults on public well being and schooling will proceed. The reversal on hiring Hinshaw confirms that relationships with Indigenous of us won’t issue into choices.

How a lot will “bizarre Albertans” take earlier than we begin a motion to take again Alberta from Take Again Alberta?

Wayne Stewart, Calgary

Can’t bylaw each dangerous factor

Re: Metropolis could effective property homeowners who don’t management foxtail barley, a hazard to pets, Jun 26

A significant metropolis park (Nostril Hill Park), the place we’ve typically walked our canine, has 1000’s of rising foxtail barley and I wager that Fish Creek Provincial Park has 1,000,000 of them. So what’s the purpose of a foxtail bylaw when the town possible not will management them within the metropolis park and never having jurisdictional authority to regulate them in Fish Creek Provincial Park?

Foxtails are a standard wild species throughout Alberta, the invasion of which needs to be tolerated by Calgary property homeowners at their very own initiative – with out one other petty bylaw.

Kurt Hansen, Calgary