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Wednesday's letters: Our Olympic gear should be made here

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TORONTO, ON - OCTOBER 26: Team Canada athletes model the new Team Canada x lululemon Athlete Kit during the Team Canada x lululemon Athlete Kit reveal on October 26, 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The reveal included official gear to be worn at the Opening Ceremony, Closing Ceremony, on the podium, for media interviews, and around the village at the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
TORONTO, ON – OCTOBER 26: Team Canada athletes model the new Team Canada x lululemon Athlete Kit during the Team Canada x lululemon Athlete Kit reveal on October 26, 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The reveal included official gear to be worn at the Opening Ceremony, Closing Ceremony, on the podium, for media interviews, and around the village at the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Photo by Vaughn Ridley /Getty Images for lululemon
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What a great choice to have Lululemon design the 2022 winter Olympic athlete clothing. Too bad the items are not made in Canada; that made the choice to buy an item or not that much easier.

Portugal is able to get it right; all souvenir items that I looked at a few years ago while touring there were made in Portugal. When items are representative of Canada, they need to be made in Canada.

Heather Steinke, Sherwood Park

Why delay booster shots for Albertans?

Why delay boosters for all? The government of Alberta claims, incorrectly from the scientific point of view, that immunity built after two doses of a COVID vaccine wanes after six months for only some individuals. For quite a while now we have known this is simply not true. Many European countries and the U.S.A. have already expanded eligibility for a booster to all adults. It further reduces the risk of death and hospitalization, significantly helps to avoid getting even a “mild” illness, and reduces COVID transmission by up to 66 per cent.

Even the threshold set by this government of ages 70-plus is mind boggling — what about people in their 50s and 60s who still work, often in high-risk environments, many of them with diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart-related issues, all of which contribute to a higher risk of a nastier illness? The data is out there; we can get better protection against COVID. Why doesn’t the government allow us to?

Ken Harbeck, Edmonton

Natural gas backs up green energy

Re. “Finally, we get some context in the Coastal GasLink saga,” David Staples, Nov. 24

Many thanks to David Staples for supplying more truth to this matter. More politically correct news reporters tend to ignore the facts, conveniently. A very irresponsible thing to do if you want to be credible. The Indigenous people want to get out of poverty and to do so takes work, initiative and determination, not taxpayers’ dollars. People from out of province should get arrested for being disruptive and go tend to their own backyard and get a real job. And the NDP should know better.

As for climate change, the work to supply natural gas is far less polluting than coal, and is good backup in case solar power and wind power fail us due to weather changes. We cannot control Mother Nature, but we can control our emissions. But the rest of the world must follow suit and that is not going to be an easy task, if in fact it can be done. As we have seen from the intense rains in B.C., the infrastructure needs to be far better planned for the unexpected. The lake in Abbotsford should never have been drained 100 years ago, but now other plans will have to be implemented to avoid future washouts. Past washouts did not teach the builders a lesson.

Phil Cockroft, Stony Plain

Source: EdmontonJournal

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