Calgary Sun Letters to the Editor, Nov. 11: ‘A day for the heroes’

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Remember the heroes

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Wednesday, Nov. 11, is Remembrance Day. ‘Lest We Forget’ should also be, we will never forget our brave veterans who gave their lives during two world wars so all Canadians could be free, all our living veterans, and current armed forces members, including those who lost their lives at Wainwright, and all current and retired first responders who put their lives on the line each day. All Canadians – whatever race, creed or religion – wear a poppy! God bless all who died for our freedom.

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BRUCE HAYNES

(A group that devotes their lives to making the world a better place)

Veto power

Regarding Trump’s promise to veto many things in his last two years: He will now be known as ‘Veto Corleone.’

MARILYN LEFAIVRE

(A step up from what some are calling him these days)

Gift from God

If you’re a Christian and a football fan, you love the new Alberta Time Zone change. As a Christian, my first priority is to be in church on Sunday. Now that used to mean all the NFL games that had a 1 p.m. kickoff in the Eastern Time Zone had me still in church at 11 a.m. Alberta time. I’d use the time to say prayer for Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, my favourite team in the NFL. Now with the time zone change, the NFL games start at noon Alberta Time, which is enough time to attend church, shake the pastor’s hand and tell him what a great sermon he did (We really do have great sermons at St. Matthews’s Lutheran Church in Stony Plain) and get home in time for the NFL kickoff! To me, the Alberta Time Zone change is a gift from God and I’ll take it! In the CFL, I was born a Tiger-Cats fan and I’ll be one till the day I die, but this weekend, I’m cheering for Cody and the boys on the Edmonton Elks to win the Grey Cup for Alberta! Could this be the season, Elks win the Grey Cup and Oilers win the Stanley Cup? I believe in miracles…

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CHRIS ROBERTSON, Stony Plain

(Glad your Sundays are lining up for you)

Bad decision on Russia

Talk about bad decisions, really bad decisions. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Frankfurt recently ruled Russian teams can compete in next year’s men’s and women’s world championships, overturning International Ice Hockey Federation ‌decisions to exclude them. Russian teams are now allowed to return to world hockey. This CAS has seemed to have forgotten Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine is still killing and murdering innocent Ukrainians and slowly destroying their cities and towns with missiles and drones on a daily basis. For the sake of sport, CAS doesn’t care what Russia is doing. What?! Shame on CAS.

ROBERT J. MOSKAL, Winnipeg

(It’s drawn a fair amount of push-back, for sure)

Be afraid

For once, I agree with Calgary’s former mayor, Naheed Nenshi. When he says Premier Smith and the UCP are afraid of him, they should be. In fact, everyone should be afraid, even terrified, of what he’ll do should he become premier. He’s a Liberal dressed in ENDP ideology and his record on taxation should be the only warning voters need. There’s never too much of other people’s money for politicians like him. Concerning his self-promotion of being voted ‘Best Mayor in the World’ (2014), so what? It’s not a good look hanging onto a title coming from an insignificant self-serving, no-name organization in Britain which no-one has ever heard of. So, yes, the UCP and the premier should be scared of the ENDP leader, just like everyone else who thinks for themselves.

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PAUL BAUMBERG, Dead Man’s Flats

(His fiscal record isn’t great, but, to be fair, neither is the UCP’s)

Behind the scenes

It seems like Donald Trump has recently taken a shine to the male posterior, although this may not be new. His rump of choice lately is puzzling given the many choices that he has. Pete Hegseth does push-ups on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Bobby Kennedy Jr. dressed in a suit, does pull-ups at the airport and takes ice baths clad in nothing more than his Levi 501s. Do you suppose Pete and Bobby are trying too hard? Why else are they being overlooked? Thank-you for your attention to this matter.

WILLIAM EDWORTHY

(Thank you for your analysis)

No-so-small increases

So, our illustrious city council spent $2-million-plus on a report telling us our city’s water system has been neglected for the last few decades. Wow, who’d have guessed?! Of course, Mayor Farkas assured us the money was well spent and equates to only a pittance of the overall budget, so I guess that makes it OK. Funny, wasn’t that exactly what Nenshi said about all his ‘world-class’ art projects scattered around the city? And who can forget Gondek’s spending of a few million dollars to change Calgary’s motto to ‘Blue Sky City’? Again, just a small fraction of the overall budget. Funny how, as soon as these big talking political figures get elected, they seem to fall into the same mold. If they stopped spending all these small portions of the overall budget and applied them to lowering taxes or maybe, I don’t know, use it to repair city infrastructure systems, maybe we wouldn’t be facing huge tax increases!

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JOHN HANCOCK

(Even small increases add up when there are enough of them)

Tearing us down

(PM Mark) Carney thinks it’s a good idea to sell off public assets like airports. Because nothing says ‘nation building’ like stripping the country for parts! He is also cutting corporate and capital gains taxes to attract international investors to come in and extract more wealth from this country, in a race to the bottom. He’s signalling to the vultures that they should feast on the carcass of Canada. Why make profit for Canadian firms and Canadian workers when we can ship the profits abroad?

CLARENCE WHITLEY

(Hopefully there’s a sensible financial method to his madness)

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