Your Views

The fact that banning organics from landfills is still headline news ( Gazette , March 18) goes to show that some part of our collective concern on the environment is failing miserably.

In response to the letter to the editor: "Mother’s Day is more important than International Women’s Day" (Randy Ellis, Gazette , March 17): While I agree with Mr.

Joe Prins (Your Views, Gazette , March 17) calls himself a devil's advocate. He also clearly has a great sense of humour, as do some other vocal deniers of climate change. Thanks for the laughs, Joe.

John Kennair's column ( Gazette , March 10) reinforces the role that both evidence and science should play in serving the public. Both are credited with the astounding contributions to sustained global progress.

I'm very interested in the continuing soap opera of the BLESS platform ( Gazette ; Dec. 15 & 19, 2017; March 2 & 6, 2018). I'm always somewhat skeptical of construction estimates that seem to be rounded up to the nearest ten thousand dollars.

We can always count on letter writer Doris Wrench Eisler ( Gazette , March 7) to lump everything in one basket and give it to us in some black and white form. No, Doris, religious institutions are not in the business of "forgiving" sin.

Re: Council approves 2.2 per cent pay raise ( Gazette , March 9). I think that City of St. Albert, mayor and city council are still having a problem with the concept of "transparency.

As Canadians, we have a complex relationship with water. It’s a basic resource that we can’t do without. And yet, too much water in the wrong place can wreak havoc. It’s a delicate balance.

Allow me to play the devil's advocate re climate change, formerly known as global warming and now, perhaps, climate weirding. Climate change as commonly understood is the behaviour of weather over 30 years. So let's check the last 30 or more years.

I find it incredibly ironic that the March 12 workshop on FOIP (freedom of information and privacy) was “not open to the public.