Letters, July 27, 2025: ‘It’ll always be Fort Calgary to me’

Article content

Name blame

Calgary city council was wrong to rename Fort Calgary. Their decision to endorse this name-change behind closed doors and with no opportunity for Calgarians in advance to endorse or reject this change was cowardly. The establishing of a North West Mounted Police presence in this part of southern Alberta was an important step in extending Canada’s sovereignty and preparing Alberta for widespread settlement. I suggest Calgarians who object to this revisionist history send a letter to the city council and to the provincial government’s Tanya Fir, Minister of Alberta Arts, Culture and Status of Women, to demand the name Fort Calgary be promptly restored. Perhaps the provincial government should also declare it a Provincial Historic Site to recognize and affirm where our city began 100 years ago.

Article content

DONALD KOCH

(You’re welcome to try, but we don’t like your chances)

Article content

One-hit wonder

(Re: Bell: Gondek Tries Bluffing – Calgary City Hall’s Notorious Secrecy Remains.) We all know how it goes. ‘Desperate people do desperate things during desperate times.’ I firmly believe the incumbent mayor of Calgary is beginning to get a glimpse of the writing on the proverbial wall. As in the musical world, the mayor will go down as a one-hit wonder, sometime in the evening of Oct. 20th.

DONALD K. MUNROE

(You may be right.)

Left-wing attack

A left-wing group is again attacking federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. After attacking him in the Ottawa riding of Carleton during the last federal election, they are now attacking him again, in the current byelection, in the Alberta riding of Battle River-Crowfoot with 132 names on the ballot. There has been no such attack on any left-wing party leaders. Critics say Alberta’s democracy is being undermined, by making voters navigate long, cumbersome and potentially overwhelming lists, composed mainly of paper-only candidates. This attack on the election process creates voting gridlock at the polls, as list-congestion brings voting lines to a dead halt, at election time. I believe the Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada should be removed for cause by the Governor General, for allowing a breach of election integrity in Canada’s election system, or Alberta should consider this another “Canada Attack” on Alberta’s values and respond accordingly, by voting for Alberta Independence in the 2026 referendum, which actually will be the most important vote in the next year!!!

CHRIS ROBERTSON

(Hopefully, the powers that be are looking into cracking down on this nonsense)

Share this article in your social network