34 h. ago Letters March 31, 2025: ‘Carney isn’t walking the talk he’s spreading.’

BUY CANADIAN, CARNEY? Radio and TV ads urge Canadians to buy Canadian. Keep our money in Canada. Help Canadian businesses and stimulate the economy. So what did Mark Carney do in one of his first actions as Canada’s prime minister, before calling an election? He granted a $6-billion contract to upgrade our radar defence technology […]

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58 h. ago Letters, March 30, 2025: ‘Liberals eating Conservatives’ lunch’

Tories in trouble Carney is winning because he is the true conservative. Carney takes all of the winning policies away from Poilievre and then leaves Poilievre desperate to differentiate himself with nothing but scraps of imported American culture war nonsense. The Liberals have become conservatives and the conservatives have become a bargain-bin MAGA movement, and […]

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4 d. ago Letters, March 28: Canada needs Poilivre’s tenacity in fight with Trump

Do you have difficulty driving Downtown? VOTE IN OUR DAILY ONLINE POLL! WHAT WE NEED Why do people want a softer Pierre Poilievre? Was his tenacious nature help get rid of the carbon tax. He is the type of person we need to take on Trump. CURTIS RADCLIFFE (He definitely shows no tendency to give […]

Culture

4 d. ago Letters, March 28, 2025: ‘People should listen to the news to see who is running in their riding’

Petulant attitude It’s a sad reflection on our provincial government for Premier Danielle Smith to not go to the first ministers meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney. It shows a petulant and frankly embarrassing attitude by our premier. She isn’t Team Canada, she isn’t even Team Alberta. She’s Team Danielle Smith. Maybe if she would […]

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5 d. ago Letters, March 27: Carney shows he’ll attack oil and gas industry

Is a Ben Shapiro interview good diplomacy? VOTE IN OUR DAILY ONLINE POLL! GUARANTEED NOTHING Carney says he will double the Indigenous Loan Guarantee Program from $5 billion to $10 billion. Only catch is it cannot be invested in oil and gas. That shows you he will attack oil and gas if elected. CURTIS RADCLIFFE […]

Events

5 d. ago Letters, March 27, 2025: ‘Alberta separation is a real possibility’

Common wealth? Apparently King Charles offered the U.S. membership to the British Commonwealth and Trump said that is nice. If it’s true, Canada should withdraw from the Commonwealth and remove any semblance of our association with it. We’ve received no support from King Charles during this tariff war with the U.S. I guess the U.K., […]

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6 d. ago Letters, March 26: Smith needs to focus on working for Albertans

Should MLAs tone down their rhetoric? VOTE IN OUR DAILY ONLINE POLL! ROMPING WITH YANKS Lorne Gunter (Can’t understand uproar over Smith’s early March interview on Breitbart, March 25) can’t equate what Premier Smith says with what he and other commentators say when it comes to Trump and what Canadian political party would be best […]

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7 d. ago Letters, March 25, 2025: ‘These Christmas memories hard to beat’

Department-store magic I had magical Christmases as a child. One of my most cherished memories was seeing the big department stores in downtown Calgary in the mid-1970s. Walking in never disappointed, as they decorated everything spectacularly like a Disney movie of years gone by. There was no CTrain and my aunt would take me downtown […]

Culture

7 d. ago Your letters for March 25: Food bank delivers help with dignity

Food Bank provides help with dignity Kudos to the Calgary Food Bank for providing emergency food to Calgarians struggling to meet their basic needs in our downtown. The new location is much more accessible. Importantly, the method of delivery is done with dignity. Over the past few years, Calgarians in need have indicated that a […]

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7 d. ago Mennonite gathering in New Brunswick source of Ontario measles outbreak

A measles outbreak that has infected scores of unvaccinated children in Southwestern Ontario reportedly had its start at a Mennonite religious gathering in New Brunswick last year. In a March 7 letter to Ontario’s health units, the province’s chief medical officer of  health, Dr. Kieran Moore, said there was “an exposure at a large gathering […]

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8 d. ago Letters, March 24, 2025: ‘I beg all of you to vote and to be informed when you vote’

Hypocrisy at city hall I find so hypocritical that our Mayor Gondek has questions about the province’s elevated track downtown and what it would do to property taxes and businesses. Well, you need to ask yourself the same questions as the city and yourself shut down Altadore’s main street, parts of 16 Ave. N., and […]

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9 d. ago Letters, March 23: Deja vu as Sohi looks to jump from municipal to federal politics

Can the Oilers survive without their stars? VOTE IN OUR DAILY ONLINE POLL! ONLY ONE CHANCE Mayor Sohi is going to stick it to his constituents and taxpayers and leave his position at city hall, again like in 2014. If so, please don’t allow him back again if he can’t finish a term. KEVIN KELLER […]

Politics

9 d. ago Letters, March 23, 2025: ‘How can anyone support the Liberals?’

A true Canadian would not support the destruction of one’s country, like the Liberal and NDP parties have done the past nine years.

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1 week ago Letters, March 21: Trump’s Carney praise good for Poilievre?

Should Amarjeet Sohi run for Parliament again? Vote in our daily poll! Now that Trump has endorsed (kind of) a Liberal government by saying that he would rather deal with Liberals than Pierre Poilievre because he doesn’t like Poilievre and that he’s not a MAGA guy, does this give credence to Poilievre being a better […]

Transport

1 week ago Letters March 21, 2025: ‘Carney is parading around like he’s our saviour.’

Hype for nothing If one were to follow the mainstream media one would be assured the Messiah in the guise of Mark Carney had arrived and set foot in Canada. The hype is unbelievable considering that Carney has never been elected anywhere in any government position, yet he meets world leaders and even the king. […]

Transport

1 week ago Today's letters: Great to hear from Americans, but what about Trump voters?

Friday, March 21: Letters of support from south of the border were heartening, says one reader. You can write to us too, at letters@ottawacitizen.com

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1 week ago Letters, March 20: Liberals are gaslighting Canadians on carbon tax

Does Canada need more oil development? Vote in our daily poll! Liberals are congratulating themselves for pausing the carbon tax. Ironically, are they not the ones who brought in the punishing tax? Talk about gaslighting Canadians. Curtis Radcliffe (They learned the error of their ways?) Say what, grits? A message for Liberals: You blamed every […]

Economics

1 week ago Letters March 20, 2024: ‘City councillors can complain about the tax increase, but we have to pay it.’

You did it first I hear Peter Demong complaining on the radio about never seeing anything like the province raising the property tax in 14 years. How many times has the city increased the property tax in 14 years? Robert McDowell (Fair point, but any raise hurts. The way the province is sticking this on […]

Economics

1 week ago Letters March 19, 2025: ‘There is no path for Canada to become the 51st state.’

NO PATH TO 51 There’s no path for Canada to become the 51st state from the American side. Canada would be a second California with about the same population and about 50 electoral votes and about 48 seats in Congress, heavily Democrat. Republicans would never stand for that. This talk from Trump amounts to spitting […]

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2 w. ago Letters March 18, 2025: ‘We deserve what we get if we elect another Liberal government.’

DESERVE WHAT WE GET We Canadians deserve all we get from Donald Trump. Here we are, nine years later, going to re-elect a party that has damaged our country maybe beyond repair. All because the same clowns who put us in this position have a new leader about whom we know little. We do know, […]

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