Letters

After reading the article Proposed K-6 curriculum comes under fire at virtual forum in the Advocate on Oct. 6, I’m starting feel very sorry for Alberta’s young students.

This letter is in regards to the opinion piece by several Alberta physicians Facts the only cure for epidemic of vaccine misinformation published in the Advocate on Oct. 5.

While I agree that it is well past time to scrap the twice yearly Daylight Savings Time dance and I welcome that it be put to a vote by Albertans, who decided that going with permanent DST is the proper way to go?

In a letter to the Advocate published on Oct. 2, Michael Thain pointed out that the only choices the UCP government has given us are to either continue switching our clocks twice per year, or move to continuous Daylight Saving Time. If these are the only choices, then I agree with Thain, and would prefer to keep changing the clocks twice a year. I certainly do not want continuous DST when that option would mean the sun does not rise until around 9 or 10 a.m. for much of December and January.

The article “Two referendum questions, senate vote also on ballot,” on Page 3 of Oct. 1’s edition of The Advocate, states, “Perhaps the easiest referendum query will be answering yes or no to: ‘Do you want to adopt year-round Daylight Saving Time … eliminating the need to change our clocks twice a year.’”

“With all the negative news in the media today, it was uplifting to see the Central Alberta Foodgrains Growing Project raise $115,000 on Saturday by harvesting 120 acres of canola.

This letter is in response to an article in the Advocate on Sept. 25 which details an investigation by ASIRT as to what prompted the use of potentially lethal force by the RCMP officer.

Almost every day I see great stories on the RCMP, local and surrounding areas, apprehending criminals. Tuesday’s (Sept. 28) Advocate was no different. There were two notable stories.

I notice that some people are judgmental as to what should happen to the people who choose to not get the injection referred to as the COVID vaccine.

For me, and a significant number of others in Red Deer, a defining issue in this upcoming municipal election is council’s response to the Molly Banister fiasco.