Letters to the Editor, Nov. 3, 2025: ‘Flames fighting losing battle’

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Flickering Flame

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(Re: “Get Rid of October: Three Insights into How Flames Suffer” shootout loss in Ottawa“, “calgarysun.com”). I hate rain on the Dome parade, but I suspect the Calgary Flames' lackluster play will continue to plague them well into November and possibly beyond this season's campaign. Besides, someone has to finish last in the league next spring.

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DONALD K. MUNRO

(That's the spirit)

We speak confidentially

Not everyone can afford private tuition for their children. Only those who have money, and I think if they can afford the current tuition, they can probably afford more. One of the arguments against eliminating (or reducing) funding for private schools is that these people pay school taxes. True. Here's a thought. Let the Alberta government remove all funding for private schools and allow people who send their children to private schools to receive tax credits for tuition and perhaps some other expenses instead of paying taxes on public schools.

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JOHN WADDELL

(There is a heated debate going on right now)

None of Carney's business

Mark Carney's position regarding the State of Israel and President Netanyahu in particular is simply wrong. His public announcement that he would accept the two-state solution with Israel and Palestine and would arrest Netanyahu for war crimes if he ever came to Canada only deepens the peace push in the nearly two-year war. Imagine, if you will, hypothetically of course, that our First Nations people decided that they wanted an independent state, separate from Canada. What if they started a war by rebelling and killing a thousand people and kidnapping several hundred Canadian citizens? Will he soften them up and give them a province they can call their country, say Quebec or British Columbia? I think not! I'd like to think he'll use every tool available to him, especially the military, to squash this idea and bring back the kidnapped victims. If the UN or other international organizations called him a “war criminal”, so be it. As they say, people living in glass houses should not throw stones!

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JOHN HANCOCK

(It's easy for leaders to become poetic when they don't have to deal with consequences.)

Canadian disaster

Canada should inspire a new geopolitical video game calledCanadian disasterHere's the scenario for your game: The last Canadian government mismanaged Canada's trade with North America to the point that now Canadian car factories are falling like dominoes, sending hundreds of thousands into unemployment, the real estate bubble has burst and thousands of Canadians have defaulted on their sky-high mortgages, in the west agriculture has collapsed after a trade war with China and Canadians can no longer even feed themselves so now the country is sitting on the edge of the streets unrest and descent into complete anarchy! The only hope to save Canada is drilling, baby. There is a buried treasure in Alberta where there is $3 trillion in oil to financially save Canada from total oblivion, but the last Canadian government hit Canada in the wallet by shutting down the entire oil industry for blind ideological reasons with a pipeline and oil tanker abandonment bill. Your mission is to speed up and revitalize the oil industry before time runs out. Save Canada before it's too late. Ready, Player 1!

CHRIS ROBERTSON

(Sounds like a pretty depressing game)

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