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I’m involved with a lot of our metropolis counsellors pondering that purchasing a ticket to realize entry to a prepare platform goes to cease the knife and gun violence.
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They clearly don’t notice that these with weapons and knives might purchase a ticket. Are they extra anxious about misplaced income or violence?
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Dixie Watson, Calgary
Canada will help lower world coal use
Our prime minister must be greater than the “phrase” chief in clear power transition. The strategy to speaking about plans for Canada to be as GHG pristine as financially potential and cut back our portion (1.5 per cent) of complete world emissions to zero will do nothing to curtail the world’s emissions or the 1.5-degree warming restrict.
Prime minister, please focus your work on the highest 5 coal utilization international locations, that are additionally the highest 5 complete emission international locations, and transition them, first to pure gasoline, then to the subsequent confirmed power supply (2050). Coal is the world’s largest supply of emissions.
Geopolitical points might be a severe obstacle. Ready for the brand new alternate power expertise (2050) could also be too late to impede the catastrophic 1.5 C improve. FYI, spending my cash (debt/taxes) the place it could actually make an actual distinction makes a distinction to me.
Brian McConaghy, Heritage Pointe
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Smith’s plan greatest remedy for ailing system
Re: UCP well being plans alarming, letter, Might 16
UCP Chief Danielle Smith’s plan for our health-care system is the one solution to repair it and turn out to be environment friendly and useful. Smith is part-privatizing our well being care, thus changing into a twin health-care system like so many well-functioning European fashions. It is going to additionally take away this supreme energy from the unions, which have held the general public at ransom for much too lengthy.
All of the premiers listed failed our health-care system, since all they did was throw increasingly more cash at it, selecting the political path of the least resistance. Don’t neglect that these premiers did this with the help of our then-prosperous oil and gasoline business.
Our system is a gigantic money-devouring quagmire, which needs to be reinvented earlier than it utterly implodes.
Caspar Pfenninger, Calgary
Company revenue over wholesome society
Thanks, UCP, for serving to our fossil gas firms improve their worth. Not requiring them to pay municipal taxes, land leases or for air pollution cleanup of orphan wells and tailings ponds. My inventory buybacks and dividends have carried out nice. Albertans who personal inventory portfolios profit from this UCP “trickle down” coverage of taxpayer assist for enterprise.
Some folks say that enterprise subsidies can be higher spent on decreasing hospital wait occasions, classroom sizes or tuition for college students. Or, on offering low-cost housing for seniors, abused ladies and their youngsters, and the homeless to cut back poverty, struggling and crime.
Bear in mind, these are all minor inconveniences Albertans will proceed to tolerate. It’s a small value to pay for dwelling the “Alberta Benefit.”
Edmond Rocheleau, Lethbridge