I don’t need to see a 16-year-old drummer at the local tavern, and they sure aren’t going to learn anything they can’t access online. I think the age of majority is set too low anyway.

I do *NOT* have confidence in the federal Conservatives.

To the alderman who complained about standing in the cold for one-half hour waiting for the LRT, welcome to my world. I have waited for late buses for over one-half hour many times in the last month, and it’s supposed to show up every 15 minutes. You apparently have a heated shelter to go into, while I only have six layers of clothing.

City-owned housing is forcing low-income tenants to find, hire and pay maintenance men. What happened to Mayor Mandel’s commitment to affordable housing? What a hypocrite!

Some Albertans are enamoured of the Swedish health-care system. After five years living in Sweden, I venture to say that the love would be lost if Albertans knew the horrendous taxes paid by Swedes to support that country’s social services system.

I love every single day of beautiful snow and cold in Edmonton. The neighbour’s noisy Harley stays silent.

Raj Sherman says once whistleblowing legislation is in place his sources will reveal the corrupt practices in health care. Is that Lyle Oberg’s excuse for remaining silent on the “buried skeletons” he claimed to know about?

Teachers, the ones who really try, are not paid enough. If most parents would pay attention to their children’s behaviour and stop using the school system as a glorified babysitting service, we might see an improvement in academic achievement.

I hate windrows. My daughter’s sixth birthday is next week and I cannot have a party at my house because there is no place for my guests to park. Thank goodness my parents live on a snow route.

It is time for Alberta to decertify all public sector unions with members in the province and return to everyone contributing a share of health-care costs from their own pocket. That will take care of our red ink and level the playing field for those who really want to work, not just collect a paycheque.

I resent switching back to daylight time. Why don’t we switch once to daylight time and then just stay there. In the winter, it is dark when you get up and dark when you retire anyway. I love the long evenings in the summer.

The West, including Canada, panders to dictators and autocrats around the world as long as the cheap oil keeps flowing. If you think democracy will follow the demonstrations in places like Egypt and Libya, then I have a bridge for sale for you.

Where does common sense prevail when a lifelong stream of revenue and growth from a secondary airport is to be replaced by a proposed green ghetto, and developers and associates laughing all the way to the bank?

Parking your car off the street can be a problem in a place where everybody in a household is allowed to own one, or two. In a place like Tokyo, you have to prove you have room to park a vehicle off the street before you are allowed to buy and register it. Makes sense to me.

Why is it that every other city manages to own snowplows to clean the streets with, but Alberta uses graders, and these graders polish the streets. But then again, they can’t fix potholes either. Our tax dollars are pointless.

I have a certificate The Journal published in January 1989 saying I Survived the Great Blizzard of ’89. I think The Journal should issue another one saying, “I Survived the Wicked Winter of 2011” to boost our wilting spirits during these bitter cold days and nights.

If a new arena would be so good for Edmonton’s economy, why stop at one? Why not build three or four and really put the city on the map?

Previous to the last teachers’ raise, they took a five per cent cut to pay for “more resources” along with more student teachers. Get the facts straight before you whine about teachers “demanding pay raises” or make asinine correlations about teachers and city signs.

If teachers’ salaries shouldn’t ever increase, why not donate part of your salary to school resources? Teachers spend a lot of their own money enriching their students’ classroom experience.

Odd, isn’t it, that the writers of the drivel showing disrespect for teachers send their children and grandchildren into the care of these teachers every day? Apparently they need the babysitting service.

Daryl Katz and David Staples, start your fundraising for the downtown arena. Don’t look at the taxpayers for easy money and do not push Edmontonians around, because they can turn around and boycott all of Katz’s pharmacies.

Melissa Leo’s fake dropping of the F-bomb was enough to take back the Oscar she was awarded. She does know how to get great publicity.