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New private journey lies forward

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Once I first discovered of the Queen’s passing, I used to be at work. I needed to step away to see for myself on my iPhone. I couldn’t imagine it and a veil of altered actuality shrouded me for a couple of minutes, however like all of us, I needed to proceed to work.

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As time handed, everybody stated, “Have you ever heard?” It was like a bit of us immediately was wrenched away and one felt much less entire, extra porous, extra weak.

Slowly that membrane that allow shock in turns into much less friable; it quivers however regularly it should weave a stronger barrier and a brand new actuality will start its personal private journey.

Liz Gibbs, Calgary

Smith marketing campaign evokes worry

I watched that final debate. UCP management candidate Danielle Smith actually stood out talking very loud and aggressively. She pushed her Alberta Sovereignty Act. We don’t know what it’s — simply imagine her. What about all the opposite points that need to be addressed on this province? She doesn’t have a superb observe report. As chief of the Wildrose celebration, she crossed the ground. What is going to she do once more?

I’m afraid of her.

Hilda Onions, Calgary

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Queen was closing hyperlink to imperial previous

In April 1947, Princess Elizabeth declared that her entire life, whether or not it’s lengthy or brief, shall be dedicated to the service of our nice imperial household to which all of us belong. That is an artifact of a distant world wherein an inheritor to the British throne might make such a dedication to “our nice imperial household” of a nonetheless dwelling world empire.

At the moment, Elizabeth was the daughter of the “Emperor of India,” a title her father would relinquish in that very same yr. The truth was Elizabeth II ascended to the throne as an more and more post-imperial monarch. The Queen would stay a human hyperlink with that previous imperial Britain — the unique world Britain — and the virtues and rules, actual and imagined, of that nation and its empire.

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Her demise is a rupture, a breaking of that closing dwelling reference to a actuality that’s concurrently lengthy gone and but nonetheless defining of Britain immediately. King Charles III will be unable to reforge this linkage and neither ought to Canada.

Butch Skulsky, Calgary

Let widespread sense prevail on compostable baggage

We strongly help the ban on petroleum-based plastic baggage. We reuse fabric baggage, similar to our mother and father did. We often use Calgary Co-op’s starch-based compostable baggage, which we then use to ship compostable waste to our condominium’s compost and recyclables collector.

The proposed federal ban on compostables is ridiculous.

A extra applicable response can be to teach individuals on the suitable disposal of waste (beginning in Ottawa). We help the Calgary Co-op’s and the Canadian Federation of Impartial Grocers opposing the proposed ban.

Simply change the proposed rule to widespread sense and undertake an applicable schooling marketing campaign guaranteeing compostable baggage are used and appropriately discarded.

Mark and Ann Hambridge, Calgary