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

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Flickering Flames

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(Re: ‘Get rid of October: Three Takeaways as Flames suffer shootout loss in Ottawa,’ calgarysun.com). Hate to rain on the Dome’s parade, but I suspect the dismal play of Calgary Flames will continue to plague them, going into November and perhaps beyond this season’s campaign. Besides, someone has to finish last in the league next spring.

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DONALD K. MUNROE

(That’s the spirit)

Speaking privately

Not everyone can afford private schooling for their children. Only those with money and I am thinking if they can afford the current tuition charged they can probably afford more. One of the arguments against removing (or reducing) funding for private schools is that those folks do pay school taxes. True. Here is a thought. Have the Alberta government remove all funding for private schools and allow the folks who send their children to private schools a tax deduction for the tuition and possibly some other expenses in lieu of paying public school taxes.

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JOHN WADDELL

(It’s a fierce debate at the moment)

Not Carney’s business

Mark Carney’s position on the state of Israel and, in particular, president Netanyahu is just plain wrong. By him saying publicly he would recognize a two-state solution with Israel and Palestine and would arrest Netanyahu for war crimes if he ever came to Canada just aggravates the peace initiative in the nearly two-year war. Imagine if you will, hypothetically speaking of course, that our First Nations people decided they wanted an independent state apart from Canada. What if they pulled off an act of war by rising up and killing a thousand people and kidnapped several hundred Canadian citizens? Would he appease them and give them a province to call their own country, say Quebec or B.C.? I think not! I would like to think he would use every tool available to him, especially the military, to squash the notion and get the kidnapped victims back. If the UN or any other international bodies labeled him a ‘war criminal’ so be it. As it is said, people living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones!

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JOHN HANCOCK

(It’s easy for leaders to wax poetic when they don’t have to deal with the consequences)

Canadian Catastrophe

Canada should inspire a new geo-political video game called “Canadian Catastrophe”! Here is your game scenario: The last Canadian government mismanaged Canada’s North America Trade to the point where now Canadian auto manufacturing plants are falling like dominos, sending hundreds of thousands into unemployment, the housing bubble has burst and thousands of Canadians have defaulted on their sky-high mortgages, out west, farming has collapsed after a trade war with China and Canadians can no longer even feed themselves, so now the country sits on precipice of rioting in the streets and descending into total anarchy! Your only hope to save Canada is to drill, baby drill. There is a buried treasure in Alberta where $3 trillion in oil is available to financially rescue Canada from total oblivion, but the last Canadian government shot Canada in the wallet, by closing down their entire oil industry for only blind ideological reasons with a No-pipeline Bill & a No Oil Tanker Bill. Your mission is to race and reactivate the oil industry before the clock runs out. Bankruptcy looms over Canada like a guillotine blade. Can you save Canada before it is too late? Ready, Player 1!

CHRIS ROBERTSON

(Sounds like a pretty depressing game)

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