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GUEST EDITORIAL/COMMENT Farmers' Appreciation... Letter to the Editor Policy:
Letter to the Editor
The Weekly Anchor welcomes Letters to the Editor
Due to the receive the best
pandemic, the From the of care. All letters are published at the discretion of the editor-publisher
Yellowhead Publisher’s Desk The who reserves the right to edit for clarity, length and libel. All
Operation Christmas Child shoebox program will take County has had Dana McArthur agricultural letters must bear the name of the writer —and must also include
place this year. You can pack a box online at to postpone Member Canadian Association of Journalists sector not only the address and telephone number (which will not be published).
drives small
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or if you want to pack an actual box please call Breakfast, which is normally held in economies. Canada is the fifth Letters published do not necessarily reflect the policies or beliefs
Augustine at 780-723-3050 for more information. October. largest agricultural exporter in the of this newspaper.
world, and the agri-food industry
Farmers are counted among the
Shoeboxes will be picked up on November 14. many who have been affected by employs 2.3 million Canadians
the Coronavirus the most, an impact —that's one in eight jobs!
that has been seen across the globe. Canada is one of the largest
Adding to our local farmers' producers of flaxseed, canola,
struggles was the heavy rains earlier pulses, oats, and durum wheat in the
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State of Agricultural Disaster. There are 10.1 million beef cattle
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by Adrienne Tait constraints on all forms of fossil fuels'
The Liberal government's latest initiative, the standard?” PASSPORT PHOTOS & MORE
Gerald Soroka Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) aims to limit the Gerald Soroka have been left isolated without the support of
Millions are still out of work. Millions more
carbon intensity of all regulated fuels over their
to end use, in order to achieve a 30-megatonne
HELP SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM MP Yellowhead life cycle, from extraction to production through MP Yellowhead their communities, schools and families.
Canadians are feeling the financial, social and
reduction in national carbon emissions by 2030.
emotional costs of the COVID-19 pandemic
FACT- on all forms of fossil fuels, from oil, coal and stated in the House on October 1st: “What we lockdowns imposed by governments. The 5040 3rd Avenue, Edson
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The Liberals will impose emissions constraints
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producers to either find costly technologies to
THE HELP SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM MP Yellowhead meet the target or pay credits to comply with the tax on top of the Liberal government's ill- initiatives like the so-called Liberal Clean Fuel
Standard.
conceived carbon tax. The new tax that will be
regulations even though Canada uses some of the
WORLD most affordable, reliable resources performing to hitting Canadians is the clean fuel standard.”
CFS is a “second carbon tax”. It is a taxation:
some of the highest environmental standards on
SINCE IT
CORRECTION
HELP SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM Apologies on my behalf to the Edson Cycling Association for a the planet. it is an additional government-imposed financial Views & News
burden that the customer will pay. CFS will lead
This year has been very difficult for Canadians,
WAS FLAT. misqoute of projected full cost build of the new Bike Park that is financially, socially and emotionally. Life is less to as many as 30,000 job losses nationally, Media Release: by Deanna Mitchener
going in out at Willmore. In the last issue my article incorrectly said
FACT- $350,000 when actually it is a $624,000 projected cost for the full and less affordable especially during this putting in the order of $22 billion of capital at
build. Please accept my apologies and I take full blame, not the
risk of exiting the country in order to avoid
pandemic with a growing burden of taxes and
Weekly Anchor. Deanna Mitchener
investment losses.
CHECKING regulations, job losses and businesses closing. speech debate stated: “Why else would nearly Open Letter:
MP Dane Lloyd on Oct 6 during the throne
Last month's throne speech made claims about
how the government will create “a million jobs”
THE and calls for “taxes on pollution” and every decision since their election in 2015 appear 6,300 Audited
to be targeted toward undermining our jobs and
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Bill C-69, their carbon tax or now their mega
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SINCE IT My Conservative colleague, Earl Dreeshen carbon tax that is masquerading as a clean fuel Your Local Independent Newspaper
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