Thank you to Ryan Taylor for his down-to-earth columns on child rearing. I’m confident his children will be able to read, write and converse with adults, or should I rephrase and say read writing. All children do now is read print and text, they cannot read handwriting or carry on a normal two-way conversation.
It’s too bad, as they are missing a lot, and that includes passing scenery on road trips. Now they stare at a TV screen the same as they do at home.
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Agriculture needs to prepare for government spending cuts
As government makes necessary cuts to spending, what can be reduced or restructured in the budgets for agriculture?
On another topic, I wish all these PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), SPCA and animal rights people were looking after all the sick and starving horses in the United States, since they’ve caused the horse slaughter plants to close.
Let farmers look after their business and this would not be happening.
It’s no wonder there are wars going on when here in Canada there is always conflict in communities.
The loggers in B.C. are ruining the ranchers’ watersheds; GM crops are polluting the organic farms; farmers can’t save their own seed like our pioneers did; power, gas and oil companies are expropriating farmland; people build on flood plains and expect taxpayers to bail them out; and everyone has to be so careful to be politically correct, lest you are sued. The list goes on.
There have been very good letters in recent weeks in the WP about scrapping this money-wasting gun registry. To date, I doubt that any criminals have registered theirs.
Elaine Sloan,Busby, Alta.
