Letters to the Editor

The Nov. 17 editorial, “Carbon tax rightly raises public ire,” suggests that convincing detractors of the need for a carbon tax is unlikely to succeed because Canadian greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are globally insignificant.

Things are well underway for the Cochrane Activettes Share your Christmas campaign.

This is a good opportunity to re-examine the results of the past Provincial General Election (May 2015) and stress, once again, the need for the merger of the two conservative parties, the Wildrose (WR) and the Progressive Conservatives (PC).

So Donald Trump is now the President of the United States of America with close to 60 million votes and where the Republicans now control of all three levels of government. Then there was Remembrance Day.

The Nov. 3, editorial Political discourse is embarrassing was indeed refreshing in stating the obvious: Canadians and Albertans are fed up with political parties throwing their lives around like political footballs. The Nov.

Having read the letters from Vivian Pharis and Dan Cunin, I reflected on the nonsensical approach to many issues, which plague our little community.

Every week I scan both our local papers looking for nuggets of tomfoolery, incompetence, inappropriate actions, poor planning, etc. As per usual I wasn’t disappointed in recent week’s papers. First the pool.

The 2015 decision to build the Aquatic and Curling Multisport Facility provides an exceptional teaching moment for people who don’t get the concept of debt and the long-term impact it has on finances.

On Oct. 29, Enviros Wilderness School and Ghost River Rediscovery, along with community volunteers from Waiparous, Cochrane, Canmore and Calgary descended on the Ghost Public Land Use Zone for the second Great Ghost Clean Up.

World Wildlife Fund has just warned of a 58 per cent decline in vertebrate wildlife since 1970.