Your letters for Dec. 29

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Mr. Kenney unwisely gambled $1.5 billion in grants and $6 billion in mortgage ensures to restart building of the Keystone XL pipeline. Kenney knew, or ought to have identified, that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, an outspoken critic of Keystone XL, might very effectively revoke its presidential allow.

Mr. Kenney, it’s midnight within the UCP time zone and your golden carriage has simply changed into a pumpkin.

Mike Priaro, Calgary

Crosswords nonetheless valued

Thank you for the mammoth crossword. I sit up for it yearly and do it over just a few days.

I understand that area is essential to you and that devoting greater than two pages to a free puzzle means much less promoting area. I’m a senior and as of late seniors love their papers. Would or not it’s doable sooner or later to make the mammoth puzzle bigger in dimension? Again — senior, exhausting to fill in these little squares.

Thank you once more on your paper and completely happy holidays.

Irene Melnyk, Calgary

Money down the drain

Re: City council owes it to Calgary’s youngsters to return fluoride to our water, Opinion, Dec. 26

Catherine Ford’s essay on fluoride is lengthy on rhetoric and brief on logic. Why would a metropolis spend $10 million-plus to spike the water provide with fluoride whereas greater than 99 per cent is flushed via the bathroom or drains for showers, washing machines and dishwashers, whereas lower than one meagre per cent might find yourself within the mouths of the focused inhabitants? This, whereas oral dietary supplements for fluoride are available over-the-counter within the type of gels, tablets, rinses, and toothpaste.

And are we actually to fall for the assertion that it’ll not have an effect on charges? Governments have by no means discovered a manner of spending cash with out affecting the taxpayer’s pocket. Furthermore, if plebiscites are the one technique to maintain metropolis council’s insatiable urge for food for spending at bay, carry them on.

Theo van Besouw, Calgary