Opinion

Much ink has been spilled castigating the Trudeau government for requiring an abortion and LGBTQ rights “attestation” in the Canada Summer Jobs grant application.

Re: “Will Notley win a second term?” page 24, March 27 Gazette.

Re: “Opioid crisis requires compassion”, p. 26, March 27 Gazette. The writer quite rightly states that safe injection sites cut down on disease, overdoses and death.

Re: “Carbon tax? You mean the backdoor PST,” page 27, April 3 Gazette. MLA Jason Nixon knows it’s easy, and politically productive, to use phrases such as “job-killing carbon tax” while harking back to the “Alberta Advantage.

I think everybody would have liked to have had a public owned broadband Internet service in Sundre. But it is not as black and white as some people make it seem. Neither Telus nor Shaw was interested in installing broadband.

When it comes to the legalization of cannabis, all levels of government are looking for a piece of the tax pie. But the province’s cities and towns are going to have to wait.

Before forming government, Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP vowed to get the province “off of the resource revenue roller-coaster.” So it's ironic that now-premier Notley's third budget promises to take the province on yet another ride.

“We have this moment today,” were the sensitive words of the final song on my Gaither gospel DVD.

With the abundant snowfall recently I thought again of the tall tales we all heard from our fathers and grandfathers over the years. “I walked to and from school uphill both ways, through 10 feet of snow.

I have been doing a lot of whining lately to friends and family. I am sure I am not alone though. It has been a hard winter. The extreme cold and dumps of snow never seem to end. I’ve been a grouch.