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Overwhelming majority of Albertans aren’t “cowboys”
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Re: Calgary must rebrand to succeed: chamber; Unblocking Our Expertise Potential report says story of metropolis’s range should be informed, Nov. 23
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Relating to the transfer by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce to vary Calgary’s motto and picture, former Calgary metropolis councillor Jeromy Farkas posted on social media: “You possibly can pry my cowboy hat from my chilly, lifeless fingers!”
The 2021 census recorded 41,505 farms in Alberta of which 21,562 reported having cattle. Let’s name all of these “ranches.” If we assume every ranch has two cowboys or cowgirls, that signifies about 43,000 “cowpeople” in Alberta – about one per cent of the inhabitants.
Jeromy Farkas was born and raised within the southeast Calgary neighbourhood of Dover. You’re all hat and no cattle, Mr. Farkas, and so are 99 per cent of Albertans – and sporting a cowboy hat doesn’t make you one.
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Time for Cowtown to vary its “outdated hat” picture.
Mike Priaro, Calgary
Métis Affiliation of Alberta responds
Re: The Métis of Alberta don’t want the proposed structure, Opinion, Nov. 17
As vice-president of the Métis Nation of Alberta, I’m writing to appropriate some info in Ron Quintal’s opinion piece. Métis individuals and Albertans deserve info.
The MNA is the oldest steady Métis authorities in Canada. We had been based in 1928, and have been constructed by Métis over generations. We at present have over 56,000 registered residents in each a part of Alberta. Within the areas Quintal claims to talk for, we signify over 28,000 Métis.
No MNA citizen buys their citizenship. We preserve the one objectively verifiable registry that identifies Métis rights holders in Alberta. That is one cause why Canada — as the federal government with the accountability to advance relationships with Indigenous Peoples as acknowledged within the Daniels case — has acknowledged the MNA.
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In 2019, we signed a self-government settlement with Canada. This settlement expressly acknowledges our inherent proper to self-government. It’s accessible for all to learn. A structure is part of our self-government journey. Our ratification vote is about our residents’ and communities’ future. The destiny of the structure is within the fingers of our individuals, the place it ought to be.
You will need to notice that Quintal ran for MNA president in 2018. He misplaced. He and different unsuccessful candidates have now created personal organizations below Alberta’s Societies Act. Not like the MNA, the financials of those entities aren’t publicly disclosed, and their memberships are unknown. It’s galling that these entities at the moment are discouraging MNA residents from taking part in a really democratic course of, however we consider these efforts — like Quintal’s previous management run — will fail.
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The MNA is pursuing self-government in a good, democratic and clear means. We are going to proceed to take action. Alongside the best way, we may also guarantee all Albertans have the info, not fiction.
Daniel Cardinal is vice-president of the Métis Nation of Alberta.
Smith’s handout ought to be redirected
Re: Smith pledges $2.4B of inflation aid in TV deal with, Nov. 22
So, Danielle Smith goes to present us every $600. I encourage anybody with a mixed household earnings of over $80,000 to direct that cash to the place our premier ought to have put it within the first place. Practice a nurse. Enhance air flow in faculties. Help literacy (to extend understanding of science). Help the humanities.
Me? I’m sending mine on to the NDP.
Diane Douglas, Calgary
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Pointless practice pushed however freeway enhancements ignored
Re: Premier Smith touts “potential’ hydrogen-powered passenger practice to Banff, Oct. 15
So, the federal authorities is utilizing taxpayer {dollars} to assist a probable understated $1.5-billion Harry Potteresque practice between Calgary and Banff as a result of it’s wrapped in an environmental cloak of presumably working on hydrogen and decreasing automobile emissions on the Trans-Canada Freeway by 25 per cent. This, on a bit of freeway that’s working effectively inside its capability and experiences low collision charges.
In the meantime, two-lane sections of Canada’s important Trans-Canada Freeway that carry large volumes of cargo by truck by means of Yoho, Glacier and Mount Revelstoke Nationwide Parks below federal accountability are working above carrying capability and expertise excessive collision charges go unfunded for upgrading to 4 lanes.
Even investing to extend railway observe carrying capability by means of the mountains would divert cargo from vehicles to rail and end in diminished site visitors emissions makes extra sense than a vacationer practice.
Makes you marvel how authorities funding priorities are set.
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