10 h. ago Letters, Dec. 5, 2025: ‘UCP looking increasingly separatist’

Call them the ASP I think it’s time for the UCP to change its name to the Alberta Separatist Party. Pretty sure a large portion of the people who voted UCP in the last election thought they were just voting conservative. Hey, Thomas Lukaszuk, I voted NDP last election. Start up a central-leaning conservative party […]

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34 h. ago Letters, Dec. 4, 2025: Smith ‘branding us like cattle’ with digital ID

No clause for concern Should you limit your freedom to one week per year? Absolutely not. The notwithstanding clause is Alberta’s constitutionally protected right and freedom that Alberta has the right and responsibility to exercise, to protect the Albertan way of life. Any judicial intrusion by federal politicians from Ottawa or by unelected judges in […]

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58 h. ago Letters, Dec. 3, 2025: ‘Danielle Smith, remember your foray with Jim Prentice’

Same old story Marc Miller, the new minister of Canadian Identity and Culture. Isn’t he the old minister who implemented Trudeau’s turnstile immigration program which has had a profound impact on Canada’s identity and culture? Is Miller now going to finish the job, add to what he’s done, change what he’s done or simply continue […]

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4 d. ago Letters, Dec. 1, 2025: ‘Calgary taxpayers picking up the tab’

Taxing reality As a Calgary city taxpayer, have you ever wondered why taxes keep rising every year? This year taxes are targeted to rise 5.8%, although (Mayor Jeromy) Farkas and city council are trying to reduce this. City taxes rise every year because our population keeps growing. However, most people coming to Calgary don’t earn […]

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5 d. ago Calgary renews programs, awareness as homeless face dire challenges of winter

CALGARY — Chaz Smith remembers being homeless, and the awful foreboding when the snow came, the temperatures plunged and the very drugs holding him in thrall became the rescue line keeping him alive. “Your immediate concern was obviously that it’s cold, you’re going to freeze and die outside when temperatures drop,” Smith, who is now […]

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8 d. ago Mark Carney et Danielle Smith s’entendent pour bâtir des pipelines

Le gouvernement Carney continue de faire sauter les verrous de l’expansion des sables bitumineux.

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2 w. ago MLB will comply with Senate’s request for gambling documents: Commish

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball says it will comply with a Senate committee’s request for documents detailing gambling investigations. Sens. Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee sent a letter Monday to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred asking for information by Dec. 5. The request followed indictments of Cleveland pitchers […]

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