Crowsnest Pass Herald - April 19

Vol. 93 No. 15 April 19, 2023

Badging for the KRA Pro Rodeo

Nick Allen photo

Starting at noon on the east end of Blairmore, riders for the annual Kananaskis Rodeo Association (KRA) Badge Ride were out on Friday, April 14 with volunteers following on foot, in a side-by-side and a truck.

NICK ALLEN Pass Herald Reporter For the annual Kananaskis Rodeo Association’s KRA Badge Ride, the riders were out on Friday, April 14 in downtown Blairmore. The event started at noon at the east end of Blairmore.

Residents were able to purchase a KRA Sheriff’s Badge for $2 for a chance to win prizes donated by local businesses. KRA president Joe Trotz explained the purpose of the Badge Ride which has been going for over 20 years.

“The Badge Ride is just something to kind of bring awareness to the people in town, with the rodeo being on within a couple of weeks and that’s kind of a little bit of a fundraiser,” said Trotz.

He said getting volunteers for the event was easy, with some of them having the time off school to participate. There were three riders going down the street

with a side-by-side following to clean up any mess left by the horses.

“The horses don’t care where they go,” joked Trotz.

Bringing up the rear was a truck with their hazards on to help warn approaching drivers. Rounding out the team of volunteers were the people on foot going from store to store with the badges for sale. Proceeds from the badges go towards running the KRA and helping with the upcoming rodeo on April 28 to 30.

Trotz explained they have some “really good contestants” with over 330 entries into the competition.

“We got a really good turnout of professional cowboys from Canada and the US. It’s going to be a really good rodeo,” said Trotz.

On Friday, April 28, the women will be doing Saddle bronc riding as part of their own association. It is not a pro-sanctioned event but is something they host between other rodeo events.

Contestants for the rest of the rodeo will be com-

peting in bareback riding, steer wrestling, tie down roping, barrel racing, saddle bronc, team roping and bull riding.

At 10 p.m. on April 28, there will be a KRA Social at the Curling Club Lounge which is for those 18 and older only.

Saturday, April 29 will feature a free pancake breakfast hosted by the Coleman Lions at 9:30 a.m. At 10 a.m. the junior/senior rodeo will be underway and 6 p.m. will be the pro rodeo performance. At 8 p.m. doors open for the KRA Cabaret with a mechanical bull being available. On Sunday, April 30 there will be a pro rodeo performance at 2 p.m.

“It’s a full slate. It’s great family entertainment,” said Trotz.

It should be a return to normal after they missed the last couple of years because of COVID-19. This event marks the 39th year of putting on the rodeo, with the association starting in 1983, according to Trotz.

2 - CROWSNEST PASS HERALD - Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Teck Board rejects Glencore proposal NICK ALLEN Pass Herald Reporter Teck Board of Directors unanimously rejects revised, unsolicited proposal from Glencore, claiming Glencore’s revised proposal is materially unchanged and still not in the best interest of Teck on April 13.

The board recommended shareholders vote for separation and dual class amendment. They announced that its Board of Directors has reviewed and unanimously rejected an acquisition proposal from Glencore which was received on April 11, which would see that company acquire Teck.

Consistent with its duties and in consultation with its financial and legal advisors, Teck’s Board of Directors conducted a detailed review and assessment of the proposal and determined that the revised proposal is not in the best interest of Teck or its shareholders. The Teck Board and management team remain fully confident that Teck’s planned separation creates a greater spectrum of value enhancing opportunities for both Teck Metals and Elk Valley Resources (EVR).

“Glencore has made two opportunistic and unrealistic proposals that would transfer significant value to Glencore at the expense of Teck shareholders,” said Sheila Murray, Chair of the board at Teck, “Teck’s proposed separation creates a significantly greater spectrum of opportunities to maximize value for Teck

shareholders. The special committee and board continue to recommend that shareholders vote for the proposed separation into Teck Metals and EVR as the best pathway to fully realize the greatest value.”

According to Teck CEO Jonathan Price, Glencore recognizes that after Teck splits, they would be exposed to significantly greater competition. This is why they are trying to frustrate Teck’s separation process, he explained.

“The fundamental flaws of Glencore’s revised proposal continue to make it a non-starter. It does not address major inherent risks including substantial regulatory hurdles, jurisdictional and ESG concerns, and diluting the base metals business with significant oil trading,” said Price.

It is currently “not the time” to explore a transaction of this nature claims Dr. Norman Keevil, Chairman Emeritus at Teck.

“I have the utmost confidence in the board’s and our management teams’ strategy to maximize value for each of Teck Metals’ and EVR’s shareholders after the separation,” added Keevil.

The proposal would eliminate the ability of Teck to explore opportunities to maximize value post-separation and would remove Teck shareholders’ choice to remain invested in the steelmaking coal business.

Teck also claims it would expose shareholders to significant jurisdictional risk, contaminate metals with one of the

world’s largest oil trading businesses and lead to regulatory uncertainty that could take up to two years to resolve.

Another issue they found is that there is no clear plan by Glencore to exit coal, leading Teck shareholders to remain exposed to thermal coal for an uncertain period of time.

In contrast, Teck claims their pending separation provides shareholders with a greater set of options to maximize value. According to Teck, the separation minimizes execution risk, provides a path to fulfill the full potential of Teck Metals, realizes significant value for the steelmaking coal assets of EVR and does not foreclose future opportunities for other value enhancing transactions.

Teck’s Board of Directors unanimously recommends that shareholders approve the previously announced reorganization of Teck’s business and the proposal to introduce a six-year sunset for the multiple voting rights attached to the Class A common shares of Teck at the annual and special meeting of shareholders on April 26.

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POLICE BRIEFS There was a total of 52 calls for service received between April 10 to 17. The calls included two break and enters, one fraud/forgery, one threats/harassment, one mischief (vandalism), one theft of a motor vehicle, two thefts, one impaired driving, two disturbing the peace, one other criminal code, two other provincial statutes, eight driving complaints, five motor vehicle collisions, four assistances to the general public, four suspicious occurrence, three assists to other agencies, 11 violation tickets/warnings, one 911 call, two animal calls and five lost/found.

Break and Enter On April 11, 2023, there was a complaint of an attempted break and enter to a commercial business in Coleman by damaging the glass door. Entry was not gained.

Fraudulent Cheque On April 11, 2023, a complainant advised he received a cheque in the mail that appeared to be fraudulent. He was selling an item online and the cheque was above the asking price. The company was called and advised the cheque was fraudulent.

Door Knocking On April 12, 2023, a complainant advised the police that youth in Bellevue have been knocking on the doors of residences and running away.

Vehicle Theft On April 13, 2023, there was a complaint of the theft of a 2022 Mitsubishi SUV with Alberta Licence CNH7751 which was parked in a garage in Blairmore.

The theft occurred sometime overnight and is under investigation.

Anyone having any information can call the RCMP detachment or Crime Stoppers.

Erratic Driving On April 13, 2023, there was complaint of a stranded motorist reporting his truck was stuck while he was out hunting. A 20-year-old male from the Lethbridge area advised that he walked out of the location and was on Highway 22 near the Highway 520 Ranchlands area. Police from Claresholm and Crowsnest Pass attended the location. He was given a ride to Claresholm where he planned to make arrangements for towing his vehicle.

Shoplifting On April 16, 2023, there was a complaint of shoplifting from a grocery store in Blairmore . The female suspect walked out of the store with a basket full of groceries and left in a newer model black car. The matter is under investigation to identify the suspect.

On April 16, 2023, there was a complaint of shoplifting from a convenience store in Blairmore. The suspects were identified and warned not to return to the business.

Reminders to the Public Reminder to drivers to make notice of school buses stopped with children loading or unloading form the bus, vehicles are to stop when driving both ways when lights are flashing and the stop sign is activated. Be careful when children are crossing the street.

Reminder to drivers to watch for animals in ditches which run across highways. Be aware of your surroundings.

Reminder to property owners to lock your doors and vehicles. Mark your belongings and record serial numbers of tools and other important items.

If anyone has any information, call Crime Stoppers.

Tips can be phoned in to 1-800-222-8477.

The Simple Raven’s Post

BY AVNER PERL

Is there a God? On Easter day, a young man from out of town who reads the Simple Raven’s Post blessed me with a visit. He is about forty and educated above a Master’s level.

I have been reading your column; he said, and I am surprised. You seem to balance your comments, but there is one group you don’t consider at all. The people who don’t believe in God. You know that there are a lot of us.

That is true, I must admit. I have been studying beliefs in God since before he was born. It has exposed me to the main Abrahamic religions, and I lived in the ruins of the historical places that they built. My high school was in the Galilea mountains where Jesus grew up. As soon as I could, I studied the history of human faith in a supreme deity. We always had one since the days of cave people. We have worshipped the Spirit as a singularity or split into many specialized Gods but always existed in human reality or imagination. Thousands of philosophers over many generations debated what God is like or not. As a matter of fact, I am writing a book about it, if I will ever finish.

Here was an intelligent young man, asking me on Easter day to tell him why I don’t take atheism seriously when writing in the Pass Herald. He left me lost for words. I should serve my whole readers’ community equally and remember the two newest religions, Science and money, or the faith in the Golden Calf. The last is not that new.

Every generation of humans always believed that their science is the greatest. If new scientific discoveries or hoarded riches are their God, I should mention them when I talk about religions. He was demanding of me to provide proof that the biblical God exists or admit that there is no God. He wants material evidence for a spiritual being. Can’t be done. Yet I care about that young man and wouldn’t wish him to feel ignored.

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We have surpassed other animals and humans in terms of our culture. Yet we spend a lot of time trying to discover how the world or universe around us is working. We do it with our senses, eyes, ears, and so on. We are also very good at fooling our senses. One only needs to learn how to do some magic tricks to prove it. We can’t build even one human being or any other living animal and make it alive with all that we know.

My friend believes that it all happened by chance. Luck alone. He can easily point at things in the holy books that are factually wrong. He met some people who believe in the bible literally and he thinks that all those who believe in God think that way. We don’t. We have books with stories that demonstrate examples of humanity’s wisdom. Those books were written generations after events happened at times when most people were illiterate and knowledge was passed on by word of mouth. There were many more books that the communities of faith lived by and, over time, wars and other disasters, disappeared. After each great civilization, people destroyed books and past knowledge. The Spaniards destroyed the records of the Incas, for example.

I can prove that I am a spiritual soul. I was a tiny toddler years ago and now I am a big old man. All the cells in my body and brain died and new ones replaced them, yet I am me. Not my body, but my soul. My scientific conclusion is that if that is the way things happen, it should go on the same way. The body recycles, but the person stays the same. Only at some point the body is no longer changing to get bigger or older but immaterial. Spiritual instead of physical. In games, we reach a point where we go to the next level.

The Bible mentions it in the story of the woman at the well. People, at some point, no longer will worship in an earthly place but in a spiritual way. The early Christians had many arguments about it and eventually solved the argument by force. That is not the Christian way.

My young friend said that perhaps we think God is some more advanced alien that came to Earth in our past. I have books about it. It’s not a new idea. What the ancients called Gods were far more advanced than humans at the time or possibly even now. I asked him if he ever tried to communicate with an amoeba. Perhaps advanced civilizations, or possibly even God, have no reason to communicate with us. God can easily not be visible to us and angels possibly are all around us.

Unless we investigate the dimension, we call “spiritual” we may not get far. Our experience shows that we tend to go one step forward and two steps back.

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4 - CROWSNEST PASS HERALD - Wednesday, April 19, 2023

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

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PROPOSED BYLAW NO 1116, 2022 - LAND USE BYLAW AMENDMENT

May 15 2:00pm - 6:00pm Elks Hall | 2025 - 129 Street, Blairmore

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7:00PM, April 25, 2023 Municipality of Crowsnest Pass Council Chambers 8502 – 19 Avenue, Coleman

The MAN VAN provides a fast, free baseline PSA (prostate specific antigen) blood test for men ages 40- 80, which can help in the early detection of prostate cancer. Men over 18 PURSUANT to sections 230, 606, and 692 of the Municipal will receive blood pressure, waist circumference, and stress Government Act, Revised Statutes of Alberta 2000, Chapter check measurements. No appointment necessary, just drop M-26, the Council of the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass in in! the Province of Alberta hereby gives notice of its intention to consider proposed Bylaw No. 1116, 2022, being a bylaw Proudly sponsored by the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass, to amend Bylaw No. 868, 2013, being the municipal land use AGAT Labs, Bayer, and Nutrien. Hosted by the Prostate bylaw.

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The general purpose of Bylaw No. 1116, 2022 is to establish a standard for the minimum footprint for a principal building (i.e. a Single-family Dwelling) in the Residential R-1 District and the Grouped Country Residential GCR-1 District. The proposed standard requires that any new Single-family Dwelling in these land use districts shall be of a minimum floor area size measured by the footprint of the main floor, excluding an attached garage. A deviation from the minimum standard shall require a variance application to the Development Authority.

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Peace Officers would like to remind all motorists to check your vehicle’s registration. The Government of Alberta no longer sends reminders for vehicle registration renewals so it is up to each individual owner to remember when it’s time to renew.

Even though we don’t add expiry stickers any more, we still have to keep our registration up to date in order to be legal on roads in Alberta.

Visit https://www.alberta.ca/register-vehicle.aspx or visit a registry office for more information.

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THEREFORE, TAKE NOTICE THAT a public hearing to consider Intermediate/Advanced Level 2-3 the proposed Bylaw No. 1116, 2022 will be held in the 1:30pm - 3:30pm Municipality of Crowsnest Pass Council Chambers at 7:00PM on April 25, 2023. Persons wishing to speak to the bylaw Join Brooke Siver, an IPTPA Level 2 Certified Instructor and shall be allotted 5 minutes to present their position.

Master Teaching Professional, for an interactive Pickleball clinic at the MDM Community Center Gymnasium 2802 222 AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that anyone wishing to provide Street. Players will be shown a variety of skills, drills and slide decks, maps, videos or a written submission regarding techniques to learn/improve their game of pickleball. the proposed bylaw should email: Bonnie Kawasaki, NOW HIRING! COMMUNITY SERVICES SUMMER Executive Assistant to the CAO at bonnie.kawasaki@ STUDENTS Paddles and balls will be available to DEMO! For inquiries crowsnestpass.com no later than 12:00PM on April 18, and to register, contact Tracey at 403-563-2208 or tracey.

2023. Verbal presentations (limited to 5 minutes) will be Spend your summer in the sun! We are looking for a linderman@crowsnestpass.com accepted at the public hearing. summer student to assist our permanent employees with light maintenance duties including grass cutting, weed For questions regarding the proposed Bylaw Amendment SENIORS UTILITY RATE REDUCTION whipping, event set up and tear down and other light please contact the Development Officer by calling 403-562maintenance related to green spaces, sports fields, parks, RENEWALS 8833 or emailing development@crowsnestpass.com. playgrounds, and recreation facilities. This year there will be specialty focus opportunities for a gardening student or in As per the Senior’s Rate Reduction Program Policy, the utility The proposed bylaw may be inspected at the municipal cemetery caretaking. rate reduction must be renewed annually prior to April 30 of office during normal business hours. each year.

DATED at the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass in the Province Find the full job descriptions and application at https:// of Alberta, March 29, 2023. www.crowsnestpass.com/living-here/employmentTo ensure that the rate relief is not disrupted for your opportunities-page/careers property, please fill out the application form found at DEVELOPMENT PERMITS https://www.crowsnestpass.com/living-here/finance/forms, along with a copy of your 2022 T4A (OAS) and return it to BASEBALL CLINIC the Municipal office no later than April 30, 2023.

The Development Authority of the Municipality of Crowsnest Pass recently approved the following Please contact the Utility Department at 403-563-2203 for development application(s): further information.

DP2023-026: 102 Southmore Drive, Blairmore (Lot 48 Block 1 Plan 0812254). For a Duplex (permitted use) MOVED? CHANGE YOUR MAILING/ DP2023-054: 13353 15 Avenue, Blairmore (Lot 16-18 Block 15 Plan 3380T). For a Demolition (Single-family dwelling) EMAIL ADDRESS? (permitted use) Property Assessments and Tax Notices will be distributed at Any persons claiming to be adversely affected by the above the end of April 2023. discretionary development permits or variances may file an appeal in writing by May 4, 2023, to the SUBDIVISION AND If you own property in the Crowsnest Pass and have changed DEVELOPMENT APPEAL BOARD or the Land and PROPERTY your mailing address or have signed up for paperless RIGHTS TRIBUNAL, as may be applicable. notifications and have changed your email address, you

will need to update your information with us by one of the Any persons claiming to be adversely affected by the above following methods: discretionary development permits or variances may file an appeal in writing by April 27, 2023, to the SUBDIVISION AND May 6 | 12:00pm - 4:00pm • Complete the form found at: DEVELOPMENT APPEAL BOARD or the Land and PROPERTY Hillcrest Ball Diamonds https://portal.laserfiche.ca/ RIGHTS TRIBUNAL, as may be applicable.

Ages 6 - 18 | $75 o8468/forms/Address-Change Bring a glove and bat!

• Update your mailing address Subdivision and Development Appeal Board on your Certificate of Title MUNICIPALITY OF CROWSNEST PASS 4 hour session: Throwing/Pitching, Hitting, Fielding, with Alberta Land Titles BOX 600, CROWSNEST PASS, ALBERTA T0K 0E0 Baserunning.

• Contact the Municipality at Fee of $400.00 must be included with the appeal 403-563-2203 or taxroll@ Instructors: Geoff Freeborn - Former pro pitcher/associate crowsnestpass.com Land and Property Rights Tribunal scout Cincinnati Reds.

1229-91 Street SW Property owners are responsible to pay taxes and utilities by Edmonton AB T6X 1E9 the respective deadlines whether or not a notice is received. Various former pro and college baseball players: Drew Miller, Tony Wyllie, Jorge Martinez, Brent Cooper, Roberto Valdez, Development Officer Municipality of Crowsnest Pass If you have not received your tax notice within a few weeks Ramon Valdez, Alex Regan, Brenden Banarjee.

Phone: 403 562-8833 Email: development@crowsnestpass.com

of April 30, please contact the Tax Department at 403-5632203 or taxroll@crowsnestpass.com to obtain a copy.

Register with Tracey at 403-563-2208 or at MDM Community Centre

8502 - 19 Avenue, Coleman Box 600, Crowsnest Pass, AB, T0K 0E0 ph: 403-562-8833 e: reception@crowsnestpass.com www.crowsnestpass.com After Hours Public Works Emergencies: 403-562-2021

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - CROWSNEST PASS HERALD - 5

Trying to work with TC Energy DAVID MCINTYRE

Top photo: This Crown of the Continent, world-class view looks west at the Livingstone Range and across the headwaters of Rock Creek, Connelly Creek, and Cow Creek, all tributaries of the Crowsnest River.

Middle photo: This image, taken in the Rock Creek valley with my dog for scale, shows a snowdrift approximately 400 meters east of the North Burmis Road and 5.5 km north of Highway 3. The photo, taken on March 3, 2023, looks west and shows a single windstorm’s deposition of windblown North Burmis Road grit as it appeared on Rock Creek’s western shore (directly behind me when I took the photograph). Imagine, if you can, a single year’s many days of dust clouds that spread countless tonnes of road dirt onto this land to—in winter—exacerbate unseasonal snow melt and—year-round—degrade the productivity of Rock Creek’s invertebrate and fisheries worth, and the worth of the downstream fishery in the Crowsnest River. Imagine cutting down through the pictured snowdrift to encounter numerous layers of grit sandwiched between layers of snow.

And as you contemplate this, know that the photograph captures the existing condition, i.e., before TC Energy begins massive over-the-Livingstone Range excavations and the laying of seven kilometres of a twinned pipeline with pipe that’s 4’ in diameter … and know this landscape is subjected to hurricane-force winds every single month of the year.

Third photo The image, looking west up the Rock Creek valley on March 17, 2023 and toward the Livingstone Range, shows TC Ener-

The attached letter is being offered with the thought that you might wish to print it and/or use it to inform your readers/listeners/viewers of my (David McIntyre) thoughts and efforts to assist TC Energy while having TC Energy—in its in-progress “upgrade” to an existing seven km stretch of its over-the-Livingstone Range pipeline—work to minimize its impact on the environment and the lives of Albertans. See letter on page 10.

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Imagine how little rainfall or snowmelt it would take to cause muddy water to flow down the pictured access road and into Rock Creek. And this image was taken before pipeline construction begins.

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6 - CROWSNEST PASS HERALD - Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Herald Editorial LISA SYGUTEK

What a mess this country is in. Last week I talked about the crazy woke movement that questioned the validity of 2 plus 2 equalling 4, this week it’s all about the mass number of stabbings, shootings, and murder throughout this country.

Last week a car was stolen right out of the garage of a local family. Yes, you read that right, stolen right from the inside of their garage while they were sleeping in the house.

I was in a local restaurant having lunch when a patron took off after having lunch, dining, and dashing before paying the bill. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

A few days later I saw the same individual in a different restaurant have lunch and then refuse to pay the full amount, the reasoning was that they just didn’t have the money.

Recently we have seen a rash of violent attacks and stabbings across Edmonton and Calgary.

In Edmonton on April 8, a man was shot to death in an apartment building. On April 12, a teenage boy was hospitalized after and assault. On April 13, a man was randomly stabbed at a bus stop.

In Calgary on April 3, four people were hospitalized after a stabbing. On April 12, a shooting left one dead and one injured. On the same day a man was hospitalized after a shooting on a bus. On April 13, a man was hospitalized after a stabbing on a bus. Just this week two people were murdered.

The issue really is the lack in the justice system in this country. The same 40 people were arrested 6,000 times in a year. That’s 150 per offender per year.

What’s the solution? Well I’ll tell you, it isn’t what we have right now in this country. We need hard jail time for repeat offenders, not a slap on the wrist and a half-way house.

Justin Trudeau thinks the best way to stop stabbings is to ban hunting rifles. From 2015 to 2021 violent crimes are up 32 per cent in this country.

We need a true approach to dealing with addiction and mental health issues.

I work out of Calgary two days a week and I will tell you the people who are homeless are either completely drugged out or talking to themselves. You couldn’t pay me to take transit in Calgary. I’d rather walk than go near that place.

I had a nephew who was a violent offender. In the time I knew him he dealt drugs with the most violent gangs in the world, literally.

He would tell me that he was clean, but he could never hold it together. I don’t know if he was habituated, if he had mental illness or was just a user, but he could never stay clean.

After his last federal jail term, I moved him into my house with my family during his probation, thinking that a stable home, love, and a job (he wrote for me here at the Herald) could keep him clean.

He stayed clean for maybe a month and then started selling drugs again. Only after he totalled my mom’s car, high on something during one of his drug runs, did he go back to jail. From what I understand he got out re offended with weapons charges, went back to jail and is out again. He a habitual drug dealer, has been since he was 18 and has been in and out of jail that entire time.

There is no fixing him, there is no amount of love that can bring him around. He’s just a bad person, making bad choices.

The only decent place for people like him is behind bars.

I have very little sympathy for career criminals. I was the person that made excuses, tried to fix them only to ultimately be used by them.

So, stay vigilant here in the Pass. Lock your cars, lock your houses, and keep an eye out for things that just don’t seem right. People are moving here, most of them are great, but some of them might not be good!

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Thanks for speaking out EUAN THOMSON HE/HIM - COLEMAN Dear Lisa; I’m a relative newcomer to the Pass, but starting to get to know people in the community has left the impression on me that it’s a caring place with tremendous pride in its history – a diverse history and political journey.

Seeing Herald owner Lisa Sygutek speak out against the hostile takeover of the UCP by Take Back Alberta has reinforced this sense for me. People in the Pass want the best for their community, and it’s obvious that those driving Take Back Alberta will ignore those wishes to open new economic opportunities for billionaires while excluding many of us from participating.

Thanks for speaking out THANE HURLBURT - FORT MACLEOD Dear Editor; For those of you that know me you already know I am a conservative, for those I do not know please never mistake me for anything else. My father Ken

As someone who works in drug policy, I could only stand by as Kenney’s cabinet destroyed what few protections the successive Prentice and Notley governments had built for people who rely on illegal drugs for pain or to keep physical or mental health ailments at bay. The acceleration down that path under Take Back Alberta’s UCP has been nothing short of traumatizing for street outreach workers, treatment providers, emergency responders and all of us who know someone who uses drugs.

When we talk about freedom and personal autonomy, we should mean it for everyone. And the people most at risk of losing theirs are those being most visibly targeted by Take Back Alberta: 2SLGBTQ, people who use drugs, people with disabilities or chronic pain and racialized or Indigenous peoples. Let’s not allow this election to pass without making noise for those whose rights and freedoms are being trampled on.

I, for one, could get behind an independent local candidate from the Pass who could challenge the UCP’s assumed dominion. Perhaps Ms. Sygutek should give it some thought, given that she’s already standing up.

And for the love of your community, whatever your political stripe, carry naloxone!

Hurlburt was a former Mayor of Fort Macleod and federal Member of Parliament in Ottawa from 1972 to 1979. Dad passed away in 2016 followed by my mother ReNee in 2017, and I am sure glad they did not have to witness the federal and provincial politics of today. Politics are embarrassing to most Canadians.

Embarrassing, yes, but do not give up hope. Do not give up hope to the point that you decide not to vote, it is your right and as far as I am concerned your DUTY as a Canadian.

So now we are coming into a provincial election in May here in Alberta, and the politicians are slinging mud already and the election has yet to be called. We can only imagine what kind of dirt the NDP will be Con’t on page 13

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Nick’s Notes Prehistoric Animals

I have always been a fan of prehistoric animals, ranging from the massive dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, that roamed the earth, to the very first shrew-like creature to roam the forest floor, the first mammal.

All species that came before us have always fascinated me, especially how little we truly know about some of these ancient animals. With this in mind, I imagine you can guess what place I was super excited to visit this past Easter Monday. That’s right, the Royal Tyrell Museum.

Located in Drumheller, my family decided to stop there on the holiday for a visit. Even though my nephews were there, I’m sure I was still the most amazed of our group. It had been years since I was last at the museum and it had some wonderful new exhibits to explore.

There was an incredible armoured dinosaur specimen that was so well preserved you could make out minor details in its armour. Another of the newer exhibits held a juvenile T-Rex, which was jarring after only ever seeing full-size fossils/skeletons before.

My favourite of the areas in the museum will forever be the early mammal section. Seeing how the mammal-like reptiles called Synapsids became mammals millions of years ago is incredible, especially the similarities some of the ancient animals still share with modern-day ones.

The group of Synapsids that would give way to mammals were called Therapsids and featured the first sets of teeth to have separated molars, incisors and canines.

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, “because the characteristics that separate reptiles and mammals evolved at different rates and in response to a variety of interrelated conditions, at any point in the period of transition from reptiles to mammals, there were forms that combined various characteristics of both groups.”

This means early mammals were difficult to distinguish from the reptiles around them and only became more noticeable as they took on the more obviously mammal traits we are aware of today, such as hair for insulation. It is even recognized that if some of these early Therapsids were alive today, scientists would still have trouble determining whether to call it a reptile or mammal.

One group of mammals that I find has the most interesting path when it comes to evolution is the whale.

The first ancestor of modern whales was a typical land animal. It had little resemblance to modern whales except for the skull, which featured a bony wall in the inner ear region according to an article titled “The evolution of whales” on evolution.berkeley.edu.

They only began to develop paddle-like feet as they began to take on a more aquatic lifestyle. With that, the tail became longer and saltwater and freshwater isotopes began to be found inside the fossils. Showing us that the first whales lived in estuaries or bays between freshwater and the open ocean.

Another adaptation these animals went under was the movement of their nostrils from the front of the skull to the top. The “blowhole” as we call it today.

Then, because it came from the land, it had to find a way to move quickly with a spine that did not move side to side. This resulted in the horizontal movement of the tail fin compared to fish that move vertically.

As the whales shed more and more of the traits they developed on land, they became the versatile giants of the ocean they are today.

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April 16-22, 2023

The joy of vounteering Giving back to one’s community can provide a sense of purpose and improve an individual’s overall well-being. Data from Volunteer Hub indicates that people who volunteer improve their health by strengthening their bodies, improving their moods and reducing stress. Volunteerism also produces additional benefits, including boosting one’s positive perception to others. A study from CareerBuilder found 60 percent of hiring managers see volunteerism as a valuable asset when making recruitment decisions. Furthermore, human resources executives attest that contributing to a nonprofit can improve leadership skills.

By understanding the value behind volunteer work — for the people or organization on the receiving end as well as the volunteer — more individuals may decide to donate their time and services. However, finding the right volunteer opportunity may take some trial and error. The following are some tips for finding the right fit.

• Consider skills and interests. Before choosing a volunteer opportunity, make a list of activities that you enjoy. This may help guide volunteer choices. For example, if you like hiking, you may volunteer to clean up a local park.

• Assess your skill levels. Is there something you are particularly adept at doing?

For example, if you are a certified public accountant, you may be able to volunteer by mentoring young accounting students, or doing taxes or bookkeeping tasks for the elderly or less fortunate.

• Think about commitment level. Figure out how much time you can spend volunteering. Maybe you only have the weekends or a few hours in the evenings?

Understanding how much free time you have can help you choose opportunities that fit within these parameters.

Thank You, Volunteers We are proud to recognize our outstanding community volunteers for their hard work and dedication to the communities we live in.

• Research potential organizations. Not all nonprofit groups are created equal. Utilize resources such as CreativeVolunteer that vet charitable groups to determine if they are trustworthy.

• Define your goals. Have goals in mind when selecting opportunities. Defining a goal can help you maintain the motivation to volunteer and see a project through to completion.

• Start small. Wade into a volunteer opportunity slowly to see if it is the right fit. This may include volunteering one day a week or month. Increase the time you spend volunteering once you’ve found the right place for you.

Volunteering can bring joy to a person’s life, especially when individuals find an inspiring opportunity.

We love our volunteers thank you for everything you do!

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How to get seniors involved The negative effects of isolation is something the vast majority of the world can now relate to. The COVID-19 pandemic forced people from all walks of life and from every corner of the globe to spend less time with friends, family members, neighbors, and other acquaintances. As the world cut back on in-person interactions to curb the spread of the virus, billions of people recognized just how difficult feelings of isolation can be.

Feelings of isolation are a problem many seniors know all too well. A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine indicates that roughly 25 percent of adults aged 65 and older are considered to be socially isolated. That’s both sad and unhealthy, as the National Institute on Aging notes that research has linked social isolation and loneliness to problems such as high blood pressure, heart disease, anxiety, depression, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Seniors are invaluable resources in their communities. Community leaders and local residents can make a concerted effort to involve seniors in local events.

Such efforts strengthen communities and help seniors remain active participants in their towns and cities.

• Promote senior-friendly volunteering opportunities. The importance of volunteers was never more apparent than during the pandemic, when many nonprofits and other organizations were forced to meet their missions without the assistance of volunteers who had been urged to stay home. Seniors were among the first people eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive boosters, and many have been anxious to get back to pitching in. Communities can facilitate those efforts by developing and highlighting senior-friendly volunteering opportunities. For example, libraries can start a program where seniors read to children in person or via Zoom.

• Give seniors a chance to teach. Communities have rich histories that younger residents, including middle-aged adults, may be unaware of. One great way to shed light on local history is to invite local seniors to speak about how life in their communities has changed and how it’s stayed the same. Themed speaking series can attract locals with specific interests. For example, local veterans can be asked to share stories of their time in the service, while retired business owners can offer insight and advice on running successful local businesses.

• Develop nature-based programs. A 2019 study published in the journal Scientific Reports found that spending just 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with better overall health and improved well-being.

Nature-based community programs, such as planting days at local parks, hiking clubs or even beach or lakeside cleanups, is a great way for community residents, including seniors, to get

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their weekly dose of nature and spend more time with their neighbors.

Many seniors routinely confront feelings of isolation. Community leaders can take steps to help aging residents by developing and promoting programs that are inclusive and senior-friendly.

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Trying to work with TC Energy cont’d from page 5 Dear Ms. Sydenham, This is the project as I see it: My wife (Monica Field) and I first learned of the TC Energy’s over-the-Livingstone Range pipeline project in early December of 2020 through an ad in a weekly newspaper. The location was presented as this: Frank to Chapel Rock. A map showed a simple line over the Livingstone Range.

I contacted the CAO of MD #9 Pincher Creek and the Director of Development and Community Services and learned the only information they had was that TC Energy was upgrading the existing pipeline through the MD into Crowsnest Pass and on to BC. I was provided with a link to the Notice of Hearing published by the Canadian Energy Regulator (CER). There was a virtual hearing advertised there, and my wife and I registered for it. The date: February 17, 2021. Two days afterwards, my wife followed up with questions to the TC Energy Team Lead, Land Projects, Stakeholder Relations Canada. We were provided with no answers, but told there would be meetings with TC Energy groups, especially those addressing environmental concerns and construction methods. TC Energy’s Environmental Planner and Construction Advisor were to be included in the meetings.

More than a year passed. We never received a response.

Due to TC Energy’s failure to respond, my wife contacted TC Energy’s Team Lead on March 27, 2022 and requested updates/meetings/open house opportunities. She asked the same questions she’d asked the previous year, questions to which she’d received no answers.

When we, again, received no response from TC Energy, my wife wrote to Public Affairs Canada. The CER referred her to you, Teresa Sydenham, Community Relations Advisor for TC Energy. My wife contacted you via email on April 4, 2022.

You (Ms. Sydenham), in response, wrote to say you would reach out to the Land, Environment and Socio-Economic teams to gain answers, and “rough” answers to a few basic questions were presented to us by email on April 18.

During the regulatory process with the CER, TC Energy reviewed the issues my wife had detailed in her emails. Links to the Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment were included in your email. The answers to our specific questions were, however, vague and lacked essential detail. We still had many concerns/questions.

We were hopeful our questions might be answered via TC Energy’s—one evening only—open house, advertised in the local newspapers for March 29, 2023 but, unfortunately, we were unable to attend. What we learned, however, suggested that the meeting was more of a workforce recruitment endeavour than an opportunity for the public to gain insight into the project.

It’s now mid-April, and I’m in recent receipt of a response from you (Teresa Sydenham) that purports to address my request for information concerning TC Energy’s over-the-Livingstone Range segment of its named “NGTL West Path Delivery 2013 Project.”

I’m sure you can appreciate the fact that your response failed to address my request, specifically, its appeal for a listing of the public’s March 29th-expressed concerns with the project, followed by TC Energy’s responses to those concerns.

As noted in my request, I felt TC Energy, in a vision of full transparency, and to provide impacted residents with the scope of the project, would be pleased to post this information on its website for the benefit those unable to attend its open house, and for the 20/20 enlightenment of society as a whole.

Neither I nor the neighbors I’ve contacted know what TC Energy has done or is planning to do, outside of the obvious: a huge pipeline project is underway, it requires hundreds of workers, daily commutes to a rural location, countless truckloads of infrastructure, and subjects the MD of Pincher Creek’s rural roads to intense—seemingly convoys of busses and trucks—industrial use.

What little Albertans and, more specifically, the MD of Pincher Creek residents have been able to learn about the project at this time we’ve been able to glean, not from TC Energy, but from informal, on-the-road contacts with TC Energy’s worksite subcontractors who, for the past two months or more, have been using area roads to work on the pipeline and/or its right-of-way.

An applicable backstory: Several years ago, the MD of Pincher Creek, in an attempt to upgrade a portion of the North Burmis Road, began what I recall as a six-million-dollar project. It did this without apprising residents and other users of the road that a large construction project was planned. When construction began, area residents were blindsided by its scope and impact. The project, extremely noisy and disruptive, lasted— incredibly!—two long years and, during this time, the road, often impassible, was an excavat-

ed, rutted, muddy mess. The project is remembered for its months of chaotic industrial noise, mud, dust, and disorganized mayhem. No one was killed, but there were more than a few close calls. When work was finally finished, many roadway users expressed the thought that the end result was inferior to—and more dangerous!— than the road was prior to construction.

I provide the preceding because the experience mirrors the TC Energy project currently underway. The primary difference: Residents have known for more than two years that a massive pipeline construction project was planned at their virtual doorstep. That’s all they know, and the project, already in progress, is poised to begin its most disruptive phase.

Today, because of TC Energy’s failure to communicate with area residents, uninformed conjecture (likely both accurate and wildly inaccurate) and rampant speculation dominate community talk. What’s TC Energy really doing, and when? No one knows.

We (area residents), lacking facts and denied insight into the project and its stages of implementation, are worried and understandably fearful of its impact on our lives, on our ability to use and enjoy our homes, yards, and the area’s peaceful and tranquil lifestyle. You should know, too, that it’s these very qualities that define the primary reasons most residents have chosen to live and work here along the spectacularly beautiful and ecologically rich flanks of the Livingstone Range.

It’s obvious that TC Energy’s work in this area will, looking beyond its past and current impact, virtually destroy peace and tranquility of life near the Livingstone Range for the duration of the project. This, area residents know and expect. What we don’t expect and should never be subjected to is TC Energy’s failure—irrational and contrary to its stated commitment to area residents—to quantify this impact, inform the impacted community, and help us weather the industrial storm.

Proper community engagement requires TC Energy to do this and do it well, i.e., in a way that allows residents to plan for and navigate through the imposed hurdles and problems … to collaborate with TC Energy in an attempt to minimize its impact on those who have the misfortune of living on a gravel access road—the only route into a massive construction zone.

The people who live on the flanks of the Livingstone Range are conducting work within this rural, back-to-the-land environment. They’re benefiting from the agricultural and ecological worth of this rare, largely intact, internationally marketed landscape. (The pipeline crosses the Livingstone Range within an eyelash of a profoundly significant ancient archaeological site, slices through forests of endangered limber and whitebark pines, has eradicated one of less than 50 known western white pines in Alberta, and passes within a virtual stone’s throw from the viewpoint where more than 1,000 golden eagles—part of the world’s greatest concentration of golden eagles—were counted in a single day.)

TC Energy’s past work in this area has already created a massive de facto camping and off-road staging area on the western flanks of the Livingstone Range, and the work now projected to occur will—unless proper mitigation efforts are employed—further exacerbate the situation and its impact on the environment, and do this within the critical headwaters of Gold Creek and Rock Creek, two—of very few—Alberta streams still harbouring pure-strain westslope cutthroat trout.

What world-class compensation has TC Energy offered in response to these colossal losses and impacts? Your email identifies a need for “dust control” and “safety” and tells me nothing that logic wouldn’t expect of a small worksite in downtown Calgary.

I expected TC Energy to engage with area residents as outlined in its 2021 plan. I expected worksite issues and work schedules to be publicly presented and solutions found. I expected dialogue with respect to roadway issues, noise issues, transportation of work crews, pipe-hauling schedules, fill-hauling schedules and more.

I expected TC Energy to embark on a a native grassland research project to mitigate the company’s impact on rare rough fescue grasslands. I expected TC Energy to offer support for a program designed to enhance and expand Rock Creek’s fragile and threatened population of pure-strain westslope cutthroat trout, and I expected a similar effort to foster the continued existence of endangered limber and whitebark pines. I expected plantings of phenomenally rare-in-Alberta western white pines to compensate for the pipeline’s killing of a naturally occurring tree that’s rarer in Alberta than sage grouse or woodland caribou.

On April 13, 2023, the Pincher Creek Climate Risk Assessment and Community Resistance Planning team hosted an open house. Participants were exposed to long-range climate projections and the need for area residents to plan for impacts associated with projections for prolonged drought, water supply shortages, flooding, exacerbated threats of wildfire and wildfire smoke, extreme heat and its impact on human health, livestock, and the region’s ecology.

As we walk into the vagaries of this new paradigm, we must also plan for the daily, seasonal, and other ever-fickle variables that schizophrenic weather patterns throw our way. We can’t plan for tomorrow based on outdated thinking.

The MD of Pincher Creek has been apprised of the existing dust problem associated with windblown dirt from the North Burmis Road and its downwind deposition on the land and into Rock Creek, and I’m awaiting its response to my expressed concerns. TC Energy is already further exacerbating this problem, and its projected work in the headwaters of Rock Creek will add orders of magnitude that are frightening, too massive for me to more than imagine.

Please spend a long minute in contemplative review of this letter’s first picture to help define what’s appropriate as you answer this question: What is TC Energy going to do to address its current and projected impact on this spectacularly gorgeous, ecologically rich, Crown of the Continent landscape and the people who live on the storied flanks of the knife-edged Livingstone Range?

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Looking Back

BY JOHN KINNEAR

More then meets the eye I am an unabashed train chaser and have been for many years. You should not be surprised to see me pulled over on the highway in the most unlikely places, jumping out of my vehicle in a panic. It usually means I have spotted another railway car colour parade working its way through the Pass and I am focusing on photographically capturing as many of the decorated cars as I can.

In the last few years my railroad interests has been concentrated specifically on the world of train art lettering styles and trying to decipher what they say. Some of you probably would not agree with labeling these efforts as art but that is the thing about art, it is in the eye of the beholder. In the last couple of years I have beheld literally hundreds and hundreds of rail cars moving in each direction through here and snapped an untold number of photos.

It is only recently that I began to analyze the lettering in-depth and eventually realized that they are often not just about artistic license. In many cases there is a message being given, which can be very subtle and woven deep into sophisticated and bizarrely obscure words. Other times they are out right point blank and plain, like for example, a car with the giant word IMPEACH covering the whole side of it. My first clue as to the fact that these invisible artists are trying to tell us something came from a parked train at Crowsnest siding, on the border. Stopped trains are a lot easier to photograph and I was able to casually wander up the tracks snapping pics of the always varied artwork that day. Part way down the idled train consist I came across the words, The Iron Heel, in giant grey letters on the side of a grain car. Off to the right side, in smaller accented grey letters, were the words JACK LONDON. So I wondered to myself then what was this all about?

On researching this message I discovered that Jack London, author of Call of the Wild, had belonged to a radical literary group in San Francisco in his day and was a passionate advocate for animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. The Iron Heel is a fictional book whose premise is about the rise of a socialist mass movement in the United States. In the story Conservatives feel alarmed and threatened by this prospect, to the point of seizing power and establishing a brutal dictatorship in order to avert it. Socialism is a topic that seems to bring strong responses from people these days and perhaps the train artist’s intent is to foster discourse about it?

One of the most magnificent pieces of train lettering I have encountered so far was on an ore car that I chased from Hillcrest to Bushtown to finally capture the image. These are not easy cars to “tag” given there colour and indentations but this “crew” went right over the top creativity-wise to spell out the word “concepticons”.

Here then is the Wikipedia definition of what this word means. A word of warning, it is a bit out there and is definitely not some kind of a mechanical transformer toy.

A concepticon is an “open-source online lexical database of linguistic concept lists (word lists).” What? It gets worse. Here is what they do, “serving as a rich reference for new and existing databases in diachronic and synchronic linguistics, and it allows researchers a quick access to studies on semantic change, cross-linguistic polysemies, and semantic associations. Good grief, that is a tad too sophisticated for this boy and probably many of the readers, I dare say. But perhaps the message is that we all share many commonalities language-wise and should be mindful of that?

As a mentioned earlier, often the lettering is a clue to look further and I find it interesting that these artful text creations are challenging the observer. I spotted a small tag the other day that led to a double take and of course a quick photo. The lettering wasn’t very big but the message, “DONOR” was spelled out literally and above the lettering the same message using ASL (American Sign Language) gestures. Rather a creative approach I thought but it isn’t clear to me what the actual message is?

There is one more remarkable tag from my ever-growing collection that I would like to share and attempt to interpret what I feel is the story behind it. It is, once again, a spectacular crafting on a grain car, one of the most available car types to taggers. On the side of this particular car, in exotic and colourful lettering, is the word “KHAN”. Khan can have several meanings, including the title for a Mongolic nomadic tribe leader, i.e. Genghis Khan. Or it can mean an American on-line non-profit educational organization i.e. Khan Academy. But, and this is the kicker with this car, there is a recognizable cartoon in the top right hand side of the lettering that provides a further clue.

Those of you who, like me, devoured each monthly issue of Mad Magazine, from the 1960’s on, will recognize the character adjacent to the lettering. It is one of two cartoon types, specifically spies that have been featured in a regular strip in the magazine since 1961. They are one black and one white and are a parody of political ideologies. I wondered then, what is the message here?

After some extensive digging this then is my take on this provocative tag. It has to do with a famous World War Two spy by the name of Noor Inayat Khan, codename Madelaine. So the Spy vs Spy character on the railcar is there to encourage

the viewer to seek out the story of this remarkable woman who has had several books written about her.

Noor Inayat Khan was born in Moscow, the daughter of a Sufi preacher and musician. Sufism is defined as “a mystical Islamic belief”, which probably laid the foundation for her pacifism and determination to always assist the subjugated. After World War 1 broke out the family moved to England where reportedly they were surveilled for their pro-India views and so eventually moved to Paris. When the Germans invaded France in 1940 they fled back to England where Noor, because of her strong moral compass, joined the WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force).

Khan, who was fluent in French, was eventually recruited by the SOE (Special Operations Executive) which was a secret British organization that sent spies to help resistance movements in occupied Europe.

She was flown back to Paris, after extensive training including night-time parachute jumping, where she took over an incredibly dangerous job as a pianist (radio-telegraph operator) for the underground. Her story is complicated and brutally tragic in that she was eventually caught by the Gestapo and tortured for months before being sent to Dachau Prison and shot along with three other female operatives.

While in captivity she was treated as an extremely dangerous prisoner. In the profoundly important book I own, titled A Man Called Intrepid, I found the following, written by William Stevenson. It comes from après war testimony of those in charge of torture brutality. She was, “handcuffed and chained day and night in a crouching position so that she depended on male jailers to deal with her sanitary and feeding problems.” She was held in this atrocious manner for ten months but refused to give any information and on September 12th, 1944 was taken to the Dachau crematorium and shot.

For her valiant efforts, Noor was posthumously awarded the George Cross, the United Kingdom’s highest civilian award, in 1949 and the French Croix de Guerre, a military honour awarded by France in 1946.

So, as I have indicated earlier, the messages are moving past us in this way, every day, challenging us to look deeper.

Author’s Note: Be sure to check the on-line for more fascinating train art pictures.

Photos top to bottom: The Iron Heel A spectacular crew effort Railcar with a clue (John Kinnear photos) Spy versus Spy from Mad Magazine Commemorative stamp for Noor Inayat Khan (Wikimedia photos)

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Letter Cont’d from page 6 Dear Editor; Churling toward the UCP, and vise versa. I hate it, but it is the way of today in our divisive culture. My

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plea to everyone today is “don’t take your eye off the ball” no matter what “crap” you hear. Why am I so extremely concerned? It is quite simple, I turn 65 this year and I have 5 children and 9 grandchildren, and what kind of province and country am I leaving them after I am gone. Not so good at this point.

Consider the major contenders in the upcoming provincial election, UCP and NDP. (Remember I am a conservative so this is the slant I will always use) I will not vote NDP because I do not want to be taken care of, I do not want the government to move us slowly to a place where we have no choice but to depend on them for almost everything. That is not my nature, I would sooner live in a mud hut in the country, without running water and electricity, caring for my wife and family, this is possible our ancestors did it.

I will not vote NDP because they will spend too much money for health care. Health care is an extremely important privilege we have in Canada, yes privilege, and we all love it. But the health care system needs an overhaul from the ground up. Throwing money at it and creating more high paying management positions to solve the problems is not the answer. A slow and methodical, well thought out plan to rebuild our Alberta Health Services is the only answer.

I will not vote NDP because they lean way to far left, towards socialism. They want total control, and if we vote them in, they will immediately move in this direction as they did in 2015. They always boasted that the net jobs created were positive during their tenure.

The answer is yes this is true, but do we want to lose 46,000 private sector jobs and have them replaced by 79,000 public sector (government) jobs? Does not make sense to me as we need how many private sector jobs to pay for new public sector jobs? Simple math states that if the average Canadian pays 25% income tax this would take 4 private sector jobs to pay for 1 public sector job, yet the real number is more like 10 to 1 because of government inefficiencies in fiscal management. NDP are not money managers, they are money spenders.

I will not vote NDP because they changed the donations rules when they where in power. They made it so any business or company could not donate to a political party, as they believed that the major contributions to the UCP were corporate, so if they could stop this the UCP would not have enough money to operate. On the surface there are parts of this I agree with, like not having a major corporation donate millions to help get a certain candidate or party elected with the expectation of favours to their company. But what

Correction On page 5 of the April 5th paper the story title, Crowsnest Historical Society honoured with Jubilee

Medal contained errors.

Crowsnest Cando Society honoured with Jubilee Medal, not Crowsnest Historial Society.

Pass Herald Apologizes for the error.

about Unions? How many high-ranking union officials sit on almost all federal and provincial NDP boards?

They cannot donate directly to political parties, but the major unions are registered as TPA’s (third party advertisers) and they are allowed to collect and spend thousands of dollars every year advertising against the UCP in Alberta, and typically against all conservatives across Canada. These “Public” employee unions advertise directly cutting down conservatives and their policies, I believe this to be immoral and plain wrong and should not be allowed. They push the NDP agenda.

I will not vote NDP because I do not like their ideology around education. Simpl philosophy “control how we educate our young, and they will grow up to believe what we want.” History shows that this is not just socialist propaganda, but more a power grab.

Indoctrination of our children into a specific way of thinking is wrong. Our children K through 12 should be educated to think and to analyze and form their own opinions, not the opinions of others, and this indoctrination is ramped way up in post secondary. Bullying and discrimination has always been an issue and it needs to be dealt with strongly and firmly. The full “inclusivity” ideologies are more divisive than inclusive, in my opinion.

I will not vote NDP because they are bad for private small business. As a business owner and employer, it is especially important to me that our employees are successful and can flourish in today’s world. It is of the utmost importance to me that they can raise their families and have less worries about financial, education and health care matters. Business decisions are much more difficult to make under an NDP government, this was proven when NDP took office in 2015. The uncertainty of their policies made for an extremely anxious and difficult few years.

So how do I see the individual candidates? Do not forget that “the moon will be promised but seldom delivered” in any political election.

Kevin Van Tighem, NDP. Do your own research as I did and I believe he is a very nice person, but I have not met him. His time as superintendent of Banff National Park is not to be taken lightly as it was a prestigious posting. But he worked inside a government agency, he managed budgets that are “backstopped” by the federal government. If there was a major issue in Banff that needed more money over and above the budget, I assume it would just be provided to the park.

In the private sector one must make their own backstopping arrangements as there are no guarantees. Will he fight for his constituents, or just tow the party line?

I feel the latter.

Chelsae Petrovic, UCP. She is a nurse, current Mayor of Claresholm, runs a non-profit group. I know Chelsae a little now because she is a conservative and I have had discussions with her because of her preparations for the upcoming election. Her morals and values align with my own. One thing I have come to learn about her is she is “grounded in reality.” Will she fight for her constituents, or just tow the party line. Most definitely the former.

I could continue with many more reasons why I will never vote NDP, but I am sure if you read this far you have had enough!

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - CROWSNEST PASS HERALD - 15

Photos from the Crowsnest Pass Hockey Banquet

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On March 31 the CNP Minor Hockey Association hosted its Annual General Meeting and Awards Banquet. It was a night celebrating the U7, U9, U11 and U13 teams and referees in the association.

Samantha Ann Rieberger Née: Aggarwal

February 6, 1965 ~ March 31, 2023 It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Samantha “Sam” Rieberger on March 31, 2023 at the Pincher Creek Health Care Centre. She was only 58 years of age.

Sam was born in Cardiff, Wales on February 6, 1965 to parents, Olive and Jagan Aggarwal. Along with her siblings, she was raised to embrace life and all its bless-ings.

Sam was a free-spirit with a loving heart. She enjoyed getting out on the open road on her Harley, had a passion for hot rods, and she loved all animals. Sam also liked travelling, hunting and fishing, and she was always ready to socialize with friends. Hers was a light than shined bright; she will be deeply missed.

Left to mourn her passing and celebrate her life is her mother, Olive Aggarwal; her son, Dustin (April) St. Denis; her daughters, Catrina (Anthony MacDonald) Rieberger and Janine (BJ Burch) Dale; her grandchildren, Adrien (Jean) Rose, Kay-den (Bella) LaMarsh, Geoffrey McLean, Jessica Dale, Gavin Cook and Angeline Dale; her soon-to-be-great-grandson, Henry LaMarsh; her brother, Suneil Ag-garwal; her sisters, Susan Hill, Sonia Aggarwal, Charmain Aggarwal and Shannon More; as well as her extended family and many friends.

She was predeceased by her partner, Robert “Bob” Herdman and her father, Jagan Aggarwal.

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James William McGregor April 19, 1947 - April 5, 2023

It is with great sadness that the family of Jim McGregor announce his passing on April 5, 2023 at the age of 75 years.

Jim will be often thought of and lovingly remembered by his soulmate, Pat Lambkin, son, Chris McGregor, grandson Liam, daughter, Kerry Bosch (Lloyd) and grandchildren, Luke and Abby. All of whom he loved to dote on. Survivors also include Pat’s children Wayne Seaward, Terena Seaward and Dan Seaward.

Jim was predeceased by his parents Dorothy and John (Jerry) McGregor of Coleman Alberta.

Jim was born in Coleman and spent most of his life growing up in Crowsnest Pass surrounded by the nature and beauty of the Canadian Rockies. The pristine wilderness, which Jim referred to as his back yard, was his playground where he was taught to hunt and fish. Jim would often say that he lived for the outdoors. His son Chris can still remember him saying, “Tight lines, straight shooting.”

Having a natural aptitude for mechanical and chemical engineering, Jim was hired on at an early age by a company which later became Devon Energy gas plant. Jim worked there for over 30 years.

In 2010 Jim moved to Claresholm, where he met the love of his life, Pat Lambkin. He was affectionately nicknamed, “Grumpy Bear” by his daughter Kerry, even though he had a big heart and a warm smile whenever you met him.

Many favourite hours were spent out at lake Koocanusa. Where he loved taking out his boat with family and friends or just camping by the lake. When he was not out at the lake Jim had a ritual of meeting the ‘boys’ every morning for coffee in his garage. Jim had a sense of adventure, which led him to spend many winters on a snowmobile and many summers on his Harley Davidson Motorcycle. Jim was also an active member of the Freemasons for most of his adult life, following in the footsteps of his Father, Jerry McGregor.

A private family celebration of Jim’s life will be held out at Lake Koocanusa sometime this summer. Jim and his family would like to thank all his friends and neighbours for their support during the time of his illness.

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