In Minister LaGrange’s guest column, she indicates “the government offers the most extensive publicly funded dental coverage in Canada covering approximately 500,000 Albertans, including seniors.”
Well, I am a senior and I cannot get coverage. According to their website eligibility coverage calculator, my yearly income is $4,000 a year too much. I have applied for the federal plan and have been accepted. I am a bit confused how the Alberta government can say they ensure those who need dental coverage can receive it when this is not true.
Will the Alberta government guarantee I, and I assume thousands of other seniors, will become eligible in two years when they figure out their new provincial dental plan? I highly doubt it. In the meantime, thank you federal government.
Ross Wylie, Calgary
Chuckwagon legend defends animal care
This is in response to the animal activist bent on shutting down rodeo. The “poor” animals are looked after better than most kids, adults or the elderly.
I was a former chuckwagon driver for 40 years, 38 of those at the Calgary Stampede and I take exception to the inference that these animals are abused. If those animals were left to roam the range, they wouldn’t live to be 20 years or older.
Do these activists honestly think they are going to stop 20,000-plus people from attending the largest outdoor rodeo in the world every day for 10 days? I agree to making the sports as safe as possible, but those safety regulations are mostly to appease the activists who know nothing about life in the “wild, wild west.” Those animals die out in the pasture just running around and playing.
Reg Johnstone, the “Bashaw Flash”
Where is the non-market housing?
Calgary recently announced the sale of five acres at Richmond Green Park to a developer. The City has seven shovel-ready projects for sale to developers at the former Midfield Mobile Home Park.