Your Views

Barbara Smith does an admirable job of mixing fact with fiction in her letter to the editor (Gazette, June 20) although I am not sure how much fact was involved.

Re: Mayor and council-bashing. It appears the latest sport in St. Albert is letter-writing, directing vitriol and innuendoes toward the current mayor and council members.

I have read with interest and no small amount of humour the various recent rants concerning the "out of sight increases" to our water bills, the most recent of which claims the water bill has "doubled" (Gazette, Saturday, June 20)

Mr. Cooper has written a very powerful letter that should be taken as a wakeup call that things are not going to improve at city hall unless action is taken. I give Mr. Cooper credit for writing the letter.

I believe that many, if not most of you, have concluded already that politics is indeed a “dirty business,” evidence of which we are barraged with on a daily basis through various media.

I was the Alberta Liberal candidate for Spruce Grove – St. Albert in the 2015 Alberta Provincial Election. Like many candidates I ran for elected office under a set of rules set out by Elections Alberta.

I just came from the St. Albert Food Bank – after seeing your article in a recent newspaper, along with a list of needed goods, I dropped off three bags of groceries and showed my five-year-old granddaughter what a food bank means.

The Gazette's June 13 editorial about downtown revitalization is especially interesting in light of how long the Downtown Area Redevelopment Plan (DARP) has been in place.

It has been reported that Tim Hortons has dropped the “Enbridge Ads” because of the company’s support of a “Petition Against Pipelines.

I have just returned from Haida Gwaii. While there I learned some interesting things that relate to our community of St. Albert, which we might like to incorporate into our society.