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The racist, sexist essay awarded third prize is simply one other instance of poor judgment exhibited inside the UCP. There are simply so many to checklist however just a few that come to thoughts are Tracy Allard’s Hawaii journey throughout COVID; making an attempt to chop nurses’ wages and battling with medical doctors throughout COVID whereas everybody conceivable within the UCP social gathering acquired additional pay, it seems; Premier Jason Kenney’s disappearance throughout the fourth wave; Kenney paying individuals to get a vaccine, and the checklist goes on and on. I actually shake my head each time I hear of those ineptitudes. It boggles the thoughts how some supposedly well-educated people are making such poor choices. Can they not sit again and take into consideration the optics of a few of these issues and the way the general public will understand them? This simply put the nail within the UCP coffin for me. They’re displaying their true colors by awarding this essay a prize.     

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No excuse for selling hate

The racist third-prize-winning essay is indefensible. Whoever wrote it must be fined and deserves authorized motion, not a prize. The UCP members who judged and awarded the prize are selling hate and racism and have to go now. There is no such thing as a excuse. Hate appears to discover a place within the UCP provincially and the Conservatives nationally. Time to wash home.

Ian Wishart, Calgary

Immediately’s conservatives aren’t the identical

For these of us whose households spent numerous hours proudly volunteering for the Lougheed and Getty governments, we discover it laborious to imagine what a farce these phony conservatives have develop into and are disenchanted by our fellow seniors who’ve chosen to imagine each lie they feed them. These Reformers are nothing just like the true Conservatives we supported and never one is wise sufficient to counsel that we must be following in our hero Peter Lougheed’s footsteps by amassing correct royalties and taxes and working this province correctly like he did, and Alaska and Norway are doing. Whereas the lies these UCP management candidates are spreading are hilarious, they’re extraordinarily harmful to disregard. Placing much more Albertans in monetary spoil appears to be the plan, and we are able to’t afford any extra meals banks.  

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Alan Okay. Spiller, Edmonton

Unending combat in opposition to medication

Congratulations to the Calgary police for the $3-million drug bust final week. On the one hand, it will get loads of harmful medication off the streets However sadly, there are downsides to this motion. The drug sellers that also have provides will jack up their costs. Customers should discover extra money so theft crimes will ramp up. Extra drug-addicted people will find yourself within the hospital thereby straining an already overburdened system. Or they are going to find yourself lifeless. Drug sellers shall be injured or killed for his or her merchandise. They’ll arm themselves and trigger extra gun violence.

What’s the reply? I actually want I may reply that query.