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Are you following the mayor’s race? Vote in our daily poll! I understand that there is a large portion of Edmonton city hall workers who are at home doing their job. I believe most Edmontonians would like to see them return to City Hall where they belong. Especially the downtown merchants who have lost a
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I understand that there is a large portion of Edmonton city hall workers who are at home doing their job. I believe most Edmontonians would like to see them return to City Hall where they belong. Especially the downtown merchants who have lost a lot of business through this decision, allowing them to work from home because of COVID-19. Now that COVID-19 is not at the extreme level where it once was time to head back to City Hall. I suppose the union will try and block their union members from returning even though they don’t have any real grounds to do so. My point is, if you’re not going to utilize City Hall then it is time to sell the building and purchase a much smaller building to carry on business and reduce the cost to taxpayers. Perhaps on the next city hall contract with employees who stay home, they should look at reducing their raise in pay since they don’t have the travel expenses and would not need babysitter facilities to look after their children. That would be the responsible way to help out the taxpayers of Edmonton. City hall wants to build up the downtown area, then what better way to set the example by having their employees return to their offices or sell the building and reduce the size they require now.
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Jim Eaton
(It will continue to be contentious.)
We blew it
We had a chance in April. But the big-city socialists believed the Liberal lies and put them back in. Had the voters not been swayed by the glitz of Mark Carney, we could have a working government. Parliament quickly recalled. A budget by June. The House sitting through the summer. Enabling legislation would have been passed, and shovels would be in the ground for pipelines and gas liquefaction plants. Employment would be up. Immigration would be paused. Residential construction would be underway as gatekeepers were swept aside. And Canada would begin to prosper again under a Conservative administration. Instead, we have needless expenditures on pork barrel projects instead of letting free enterprise be free to lift up the economy. I mourn for our once great nation.
Laurence B. McGuire
(Same old Liberals — nothing will ever change as long as they remain in power in Ottawa.)
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