Letters, Oct. 12: Canmore improvement ruling a black eye for Bow Valley

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Canmore was already on the decline with folks dwelling on high of one another and the weekends turning the city into an excellent vacationer catastrophe. With the current court docket ruling permitting builders to nearly double the dimensions of the city, the Bow Valley is finished.

What a tragedy for habitat, wildlife and longtime residents. The one winners listed here are the destroyers.

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Take pictures and reminiscences now earlier than you must witness the ugly desecration of what was as soon as a lovely mountain city. What a waste.

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Ian Wishart, Calgary

Pension plan has benefit, with circumstances

The present UCP authorities is pushing for an Alberta pension plan.

I might help it, separate from and added to our present Canada Pension Plan, however solely below the next circumstances:

The UCP authorities doesn’t contact Alberta’s Heritage Financial savings Belief Fund besides so as to add considerably to it yearly.

Surplus oil and fuel royalties, owned by each Albertan, are used to fund an APP and each Albertan advantages equally from it — topic solely to years of residency.

Well being care stays the Alberta authorities’s high precedence, adopted by schooling and a balanced finances.

An APP is run independently of the UCP, or every other authorities — maybe by the administration of the stellar-performing CPP.

Mike Priaro, Calgary

Rising crime can’t be ignored

Re: Liberals appear to get the message on rising crime, lastly, Opinion, Oct. 11

Numbers matter, at all times. Thanks for the numbers-supported column. With out the numbers, it’s far too straightforward to argue/debate/dismiss actuality.

Canada’s crime numbers are growing and it appears our management in Ottawa is now accepting them.

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It’s a tragedy for all Canadians, particularly these instantly affected households, that the state of affairs needed to get so unhealthy earlier than the necessity for change is accepted.

Brian McConaghy, Foothills County 

Give peace an opportunity

Wouldn’t it be doable to export diplomacy every so often to Gaza as an alternative of weapons?

Dennis J. Gordica, Calgary

Two sides to Mideast battle

The mainstream media’s protection of the Israeli-Palestinian battle reveals how ethically challenged they’ve allowed themselves to turn out to be.

This consists of their reporting on the present violence in addition to their non-reporting on the anti-Palestinian social injustices that proceed between each navy flare-up over a long time of Israeli occupation.

Palestinian struggling and deaths must matter to us as a lot as that of Israelis. 

Frank Sterle Jr., White Rock, B.C.

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