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The premier was criticized not too long ago for sharing a stage with the uber-right-wing entertainer Tucker Carlson. Danielle Smith was photographed on the time with Carlson and two different darlings of the anti-anything-Liberal motion, Jordan Peterson and Conrad Black.
You’ll bear in mind Black, the tyrannical writer who purchased a British peerage, was convicted of crimes within the U.S., imprisoned, had his Order of Canada revoked after which was pardoned by Donald Trump. Akin to cleansing a dirty pot with a putrid rag.
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Carlson, whose persistent lies about dishonest within the 2020 American election contributed to him being fired from Fox Information and costing his boss greater than $780 million in libel damages, sat down this week in Moscow for a two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin. Clips of that interview present Carlson nodding like a sycophant, and looking out alternately sheepish or preening.
That is the creature our premier giggled with onstage. An agitator whose sole skilled goal is to foment outrage.
Is that your purpose, premier?
To outrage the gullible and frightened voters who abhor something new, that smacks of equity, or that could be useful to nearly all of Albertans who don’t march to the UCP’s drum?
Tom Philp, Brooks
Residents deserve say in rezoning
Council could have the legislative proper to rezone previous neighbourhoods, however shouldn’t achieve this with out conducting native neighbourhood plebiscites concerning the proposed rezoning. The result would most frequently be NION — not in our neighbourhood.
Public hearings are only a legislative excuse by a governing physique to appease the affected public and are topic to quite a lot of submission interpretation.
They aren’t in any respect a sure or no kind of suggestions to the governing physique.
Kurt J. Hansen, Calgary
Midday Information Roundup
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Improved transit security an phantasm
Re: Calgarians feeling safer on transit, Feb. 8
Residents are being inspired to consider the expenditure of $15 million a 12 months on hiring extra transit security officers is paying off.
However buried towards the top of the article is the assertion: “Regardless of the improved perceptions, practically half of respondents — 49 per cent — mentioned they keep away from utilizing Calgary Transit as a result of security issues, up two share factors from the final survey.”
The headline might simply as simply have learn: “Calgarians feeling much less protected on transit.”
Seventy-two per cent of respondents say they really feel protected driving the CTrain in the course of the day, up from 67 per cent within the earlier survey. Each statistics fall inside the survey’s admitted 4.4-percentage-point margin of error, or barely above it.
Whether or not Calgarians really feel safer on transit is a matter of public dialogue. What isn’t past doubt is town is adept at equating the expense of taxpayers’ {dollars} with measurable outcomes.
David Marsden, Calgary
Not all children have supportive houses
Re: Parental consent is widespread sense, Letter, Feb. 9
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Gary Allard wrote that he’s having a tough time understanding the uproar. Having taught with the Calgary Board of Training since 1985, I can clarify.
Allard mentioned that in his youngsters’s childhood, he and his spouse had been concerned of their lives.
Sadly, numerous the kids I’ve labored with don’t come from supportive households the place their mother and father are concerned of their lives. These college students discover their protected place is the college and the sense of household created in a instructor’s classroom. Academics should usually tackle a parental position for these people, offering breakfast and lunch, heat clothes, sneakers and emotional safety.
The uproar is about defending and supporting these youngsters, who typically select to take their very own lives.
Laurie Dolph, Calgary
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