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Lloyd Lovatt, Edmonton

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Mayor Knack’s recent comments about the referendum questions relating to immigration being racist just demonstrated that, once again, he has missed the point. Population management is critical to controlling many aspects of our environment as so many things are impacted by increasing population.

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More people mean higher, demand-driven costs for housing; more people means higher and higher emissions as more cars fill the roads and more homes use furnaces; more people drives urban sprawl as housing, roads, schools et cetera, have to be built to accommodate the increasing population; more people places additional strain on our already overburdened health-care system.

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The referendum questions aren’t, and never have been, about who to let in and who to keep out but rather about sustainable growth of Alberta. Mayor Knack just doesn’t get it.

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Bob Thompson, Edmonton

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CFL, don’t mess with a good thing. Rule changes to increase scoring? Since the CFL went to six points for a touchdown, the CFL average points per games has been more than the NFL every year but one, and one year, it was 10 points. This year, the one minor change has added a lot of excitement, like the Roughrider standing and watching the ball slowly roll out of the end zone. One less point scored. Was it exciting?

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Next year, smaller end zones, How many TDs are scored when the ball is caught in the five yards at the back of the end zone that is about to disappear? More points? More exciting?

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Move the goal post to back of end zone. Missed field goal? Dead play. No runback for a 120-yard TD. More points? Exciting? Sometimes the goal post on the goal line can be a 13th defender, Interesting? All field goal attempts will be 10 yards further. More points?

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At the moment, I’m still a CFL fan, but fading. A 35-year season ticket holder until the NFL clear-bag rule came in. We have got to remove all this Yankee thinking, This is Canada.

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Bob Forss, Edmonton

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For the most part, Americans deserve Trump and Albertans deserve Smith. Her reasoning for refusing to “retaliate” against Trump’s ongoing Canadian vendetta is based on MAGA-style delusion that, somehow, Trump will emerge from the chaos of this regime and justify her pathetic loyalty. He won’t but she will go down with the ship. Dreams die hard.

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Rochelle Carrière Hatton, Sudbury, Ont.

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The issue I have with city employees not working from offices in the core is their complete and utter hypocrisy in the things they tell us to do versus the things they choose personally.

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It seems perfectly logical to them to say to Edmontonians that downtown vibrancy and success is our problem to address. “Safety isn’t a problem, just take appropriate precautions,” they tell us. “Construction isn’t that bad; just take a different route!” they say. All the while staying home themselves or, worse, living in another municipality entirely.

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An experienced politician told me once: “Nothing is a problem until it’s your problem.” It’s time for city workers to fully experience the extent of the problem — everyday. Maybe then, things will change.

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T.J. Cook, Edmonton

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Edmonton’s record rainfall this summer should be a wake-up call. In June, our city received 264 millimetres of rain, breaking the previous record of 216 millimetres in 1914. Recent storms have flooded roads, public facilities disrupting lives across Edmonton. City crews deserve our appreciation for responding quickly, but preparation must go beyond repairing damages.

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I think practical emergency guides, both in hard copy and soft copy, should be available for city dwellers. Hard copies can be mailed to each and every city dweller, which will help them know what to do when facing this kind of situation. Many newcomers have never experienced Prairie extreme weather and may not know what action to take. Hope the Alberta government as well as the City of Edmonton will consider this.