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Mind your own business
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As a B.C. resident, I’d appreciate it if Premier Smith would stop sticking her nose in non-Alberta issues. Some of her recent comments about how B.C. ostrich farms should deal with avian flu and her ongoing comments about putting oil pipelines through B.C. are but two of her attention-getting, interfering, divisive, diversionary comments. I suggest she pay more attention to fixing some of Alberta’s problems such as rising measles cases, health-care problems and increasing wildfires. Fix things in your own backyard before offering advice or criticism of others. Your actions sound way too desperate.
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BEV YAWORSKI, Delta, B.C.
(Pipelines are certainly an Alberta issue.)
What you were elected to do
Hey, Mark Carney, here’s a novel idea. Rather than just meet with the premiers to discuss how you’re going to punish Donald Trump over tariffs, which is just going to hurt Canadians, why don’t you call or meet with him and negotiate a fair deal for Canada like you were elected to do. Heck, even Japan did that and got a great deal for its citizens.
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MARK SLOBODIAN
(It seems Canada put in place the wrong negotiator. Carney will have to pivot quickly)
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Our only chance
Not millions, but billions of dollars will be pumped into the economy of Calgary with Alberta keeping the annual $27 billion we send to Ottawa in income taxes, equalization and other federal government fees such as passports, etc., with independence. Much of this money will be pumped into Calgary job creation and office leasing as the new economic capital of the new Alberta Republic. The prosperity of Alberta independence with unlocked oil production and keeping the annual $27 billion may be the only chance for Calgary to immediately pay off its
$3-billion dollar debt and lower property taxes.
CHRIS ROBERTSON
(That’s an awfully optimistic future you’re expecting.)
Propping up business
Why are my tax dollars subsidizing people to buy electric cars and other renewables? If an industry cannot make it on its own merits, they do not deserve to be in business.
CURTIS RADCLIFFE
(Corporate welfare is an ongoing problem.)
Piles of problems
I live downtown and walk everywhere. Can anyone tell me why in the winter the bike lanes are cleared, but often the sidewalks are left piled high? In what universe does this make sense?
JOHN A. MacDONALD
(Not this one.)
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