Vox Populi

Editor: I’m glad we finally got a peep out of our MP Blake Richards on Bill C-38 (the omnibus budget bill), even if it was just in the form of a carefully scripted, partisan letter to the editor.

Editor: Since you left Hutch, without so much as a goodbye, (I’m seriously still a bit mad about that), I have a few things to thank you for.

Editor: It seems fitting that the BowCORD environmental forum was held on June 5, World Environment Day, since the natural mountain setting of Canmore and the Bow Valley is so important to our need for beauty and inspiration, for our recreation and f

Editor: Rabbit rescuers are sensitive to the predator risk. We want to protect people, rabbits and wildlife. Rabbit rescuers also want to save taxpayer costs and relationships. To enable success, Canmore needs to change policy roadblocks. 1.

Editor: A little more than one year ago, Canadians gave our Conservative government a majority mandate. In doing so they sent a message: Our country must seize the future with both hands.

Editor: Just over two months ago, the Conservative government announced this year’s federal budget would save taxpayers billions of dollars. The Harper government came through on that promise, but they did so at a huge cost to our environment.

Editor: My wife and I just returned from accompanying our grandson to the National Youth Climbing Championships in Montreal.

Editor: On the May long weekend I miraculously survived another trip on Highway 93 to and from a trip into the Columbia Valley. Some say this road and others where an animal or human is killed is a dangerous road, but that just is not so.

Editor: Like many Canadians, I have been watching, stunned with amazement (although not disbelief), at the alacrity and determination with which this Conservative government is dismantling social institutions, women’s and human rights groups, farmers

Editor: This is a copy of a letter sent to Mayor Sorensen and Councillors Karlos, Taylor, Baxter, Canning, Olver and Standish. We believe that, from the outset, the process of approving the bridge has been flawed.