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Published Dec 28, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
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An Edmonton man died after waiting eight hours at the Grey Nuns Hospital emergency room this past Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. Postmedia fileArticle content
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SOCIALIZED PROBLEM
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It’s frustrating to see decent, hard-working people die in emergency rooms all the while drug addicts get preferred service and government-funded drugs to keep their addiction alive. This is socialized health care, people. The results are always the same, more death.
RYAN WALKER
(Canada’s life expectancy is better than countries that rely on private health-care insurance like the U.S., but tragedies like the death that happened this week should not happen.)
WAR BACK HOME
Re “Israel had reasons to bar Canada’s MPs” (Editorial, Dec. 17): Humanitarian workers running into war zones before any stoppage has occurred are now in jeopardy of being killed or injured daily. But politicians from Canada who feel they are entitled to say and do anything are pouting when in a war zone area they are denied entry into a zone of turmoil. Perhaps these politicians should go to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on Hastings Street or under the overpasses in Toronto where Canada is at war with homelessness and misery. Let’s hope tax money was not used for this junket.
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WAYNE ROBERTSON
(This merry group of MPs were more interested in theatrics.)
MAKE IT TOUGHER
It’s obvious something has to be done about these ridiculous recall efforts funded by God knows who. My suggestion: a simple tweaking of the rules. Instead of allowing signatures to be collected door-to-door or out of the back of a car in a parking lot somewhere, people hell-bent on making a mockery of the democratic voting system have to actually get off their butts and go to an official location to sign the petition. Each signature then must be witnessed by either an election official or a licensed notary. We have to go to a polling station to cast a ballot so why not have to do the same thing for a recall petition?
JOHN HANCOCK
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(It’s become clear something, indeed, must be done.)
A LEADER LEADS
Re “Poilievre must keep caucus onside as he faces leadership review” (Brian Lilley, Dec. 21): Lilley focuses on the political pressures facing Pierre Poilievre but misses a larger truth: Canadians vote for experienced leadership with depth. They want leaders who attract talent, encourage trade and investment, unite Canadians beyond partisan lines, and do what is right for the country, not what is politically expedient. Poilievre is not that leader.
BRAD VOLLMERSHAUSEN
(It is highly likely Poilievre makes it through the leadership review. The question is, then what?)
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