| Support for arts
Red Deer Advocate • Jul-04-2009 I’d just like to extend a word of thanks to Janet Cole, Vold Audio, all the Art Walk volunteers and … more |
Don’t keep cuts secret
Red Deer Advocate • Jul-04-2009 Re: Why keep us in the dark?, an editorial by Lee Giles The Stelmach government is keeping Albertan… more |
| Corportations must be held accountable
Red Deer Advocate • Jul-03-2009 On June 20, at the U.S. Shooting Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Canada’s Bruce Power LLP Swat Team won … more |
A Canada to be proud of
Red Deer Advocate • Jul-02-2009 Recently, Earl Dreeshen, MP for Red Deer, sent around paper Maple Leaf flags for residents to post a… more |
| Private health care – not sustainability – is the goal
Red Deer Advocate • Jul-02-2009 Ron Liepert’s goal is to slash the amount of money the Alberta government annually puts into health … more |
Old attitudes still exist about north Red Deer
Red Deer Advocate • Jul-02-2009 I would like to clarify remarks made in the Advocate on Saturday regarding the revitalization of the… more |
| Thanks for supporting Central Alberta Theatre
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-29-2009 On behalf of the staff at Central Alberta Theatre, I would like to thank the Red Deer Advocate for … more |
Walking history tour was wonderful
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-29-2009 Having recently enjoyed a walking history tour of downtown Red Deer, hosted by longtime archivist an… more |
| County not a good place for seniors to live
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-27-2009 Is Red Deer County a good place for seniors to stay in their own home? I think not. I moved to Dick… more |
If cyclists want to use the roads, obey the traffic laws
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-27-2009 I’m all for cyclists to have rights to our roads in Red Deer, but they need to follow the laws of th… more |
| Week by week, our government is killing health care
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-27-2009 I am wondering if I have been like Rip Van Winkle and have slept through the end of last week. I mus… more |
How about some law enforcement this Canada Day?
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-27-2009 We are soon approaching Canada Day and the wonderful celebration that happens every year at Bower Po… more |
| I’m picking a bone with Bill Greenwood
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-26-2009 Re. Bill Greenwood’s June 19 column on cars and powerlines, headlined Left-leaning groups miss ha… more |
Thanks for supporting Reel Movie Mondays
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-26-2009 Reel Movie Mondays, Red Deer’s own Independent Film Series, thanks all our local film supporters for… more |
| Citizens have a right to health information
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-26-2009 It is not often that we the Central Alberta Council on Aging (CACA) agree with the Fraser Institute … more |
Religion has not made us better
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-25-2009 I can well understand the reluctance of letter writer Rev. T.L. Leadbeater (Advocate, June 16) to cr… more |
| Letterman’s joke wasn’t funny to me
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-24-2009 Re. the Advocate’s June 19 editorial by Lee Giles – headlined Get real, Sarah Palin – about the A… more |
It would be sad if city loses TV station
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-24-2009 I need to voice my concern and my disappointment about the potential demise of our local television … more |
| Sentence too lenient for driver in fatal crash
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-23-2009 Re. June 6 Advocate news story, headlined Deleburne death crash sentence: Help me understa… more |
My son’s bicycle was stolen recently
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-23-2009 My 11-year-old son was out riding his bike with two friends this past Saturday afternoon when they … more |
| All-terrain vehicle driver damaged our lawn
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-23-2009 I’m writing in to thank the person or persons who decided that our lawn, along with others on our bl… more |
Game ranchers are to blame for spread of disease
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-22-2009 Frank Kuhnen’s letter in the June 13 issue of the Advocate was the second from the elk farming commu… more |
| North Americans should consume less
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-20-2009 As North Americans, we are constantly consuming. It is common knowledge that we live in a capitali… more |
There is no need to waste so much gasoline
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-20-2009 We are two Grade 10 students from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School. Throughout the semeste… more |
| Thanks for supporting the Red Deer Walk for ALS
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-20-2009 The first planning meeting for the sixth annual Red Deer Walk for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease or Amyo… more |
It’s time to limit profane speech
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-19-2009 I am writing in connection with Sylvan Lake’s planned offensive against gutter language in public pl… more |
| Perhaps our MPs should take a pay cut
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-19-2009 Considering the public flak the British Parliament is receiving over their MPs’ high salaries and la… more |
Let’s teach kids how to garden
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-16-2009 I live in the Normandeau area in an end-unit townhouse. It has a lot of front yard space and on it I… more |
| Organized religion doesn’t deserve so much criticism
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-16-2009 I think that most people would agree with letter writer Paul Franck that religion, politics and race… more |
Column about beef missed the mark
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-16-2009 Re. Michelle Stirling-Anosh’s June 3 column, headlined Why is our beef coming from out of the cou… more |
| Cattle industry needs marketplace fairness
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-16-2009 It is time for the federal and provincial governments to step up to the plate and fix the deplorable… more |
Most of our beef is produced here
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-16-2009 I am writing in response to Michelle Stirling-Anosh’s June 3 column, headlined Why is our beef comin… more |
| Red Deer drivers are terrible
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-13-2009 I was driving west on 32nd street on June 3 and was suddenly enlightened on how terrible some Red De… more |
Canadians could learn a lot from Brits
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-13-2009 Canadians take note, Gordon Brown, English Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, has been f… more |
| City of Red Deer officials doing a great job
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-13-2009 On behalf of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA), I want to congratulate the City of… more |
Farmed elk not responsible for spread of disease
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-13-2009 As an elk farmer here in Alberta, I am writing to dispel misleading information about our industry, … more |
| Thanks for supporting Friendship Centre fundraising event
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-12-2009 As most people are aware, the Friendship Centre building has been lost due to fire. Through this … more |
Albertans should be charged user fees for health care
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-12-2009 We have an excellent health-care system in this country, but I believe it is being misused — especia… more |
| Maybe the recession is a big fat myth
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-12-2009 I am having a really hard time accepting that we are currently experiencing a recession. Oh, I know… more |
South Africa government should provide funding
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-12-2009 I read with interest the recent Associated Press article, headlined South Africa sees hope on AIDS a… more |
| Strong-willed kids must be given caring discipline
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-11-2009 Question: I want to manage and lead my strong-willed child properly, but I’m afraid I’ll brea… more |
Thanks for stealing wallet
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-12-2009 I’d like to thank the person who walked off with my wallet, which I inadvertently left at a checkout… more |
| Why didn’t police lay any charges in Red Deer pellet gun incident?
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-12-2009 Re. June 11 Advocate story, headlined Pellet gun results in arrests in Maskepetoon Park: As someone… more |
What happened to free speech?
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-12-2009 I guess the police chief and town council in Sylvan Lake don’t realize we just had the 65th annivers… more |
| Perhaps it wasn’t the marathon runners who were rude
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-11-2009 Miriam Sweet-Wright complains in her May 27 letter to the Advocate that marathon runners were rude t… more |
Stelmach fails to see the future
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-11-2009 The oil industry loves the Alberta government. Ed Stelmach is the best premier oil money can buy, w… more |
| Editorial cartoon - June 11
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I won't vote for Alberta's Tories in the next election
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-11-2009 Shortly after Ed Stelmach was selected to lead Alberta’s Conservatives, I had problems with certain … more |
| MLA Cal Dallas isn’t fooling me
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-10-2009 I was surprised and disappointed to see the paid advertisement in Thursday’s Advocate, placed by Red… more |
Vandals stole statue from memorial garden
Red Deer Advocate • Jun-09-2009 In the gardens of the little house near Rotary Park is located a special memorial garden for those w… more |