Opinion
Blackfalds on track to get a high school in 2017-19 capital plan.
Blackfalds is on track to have a new high school built by 2019, thanks to the Wolf Creek Public School Board. There will be a 700 student capacity high school built near the junior high to accommodate the students living in a community of 9328 residents.
Nearby, in Red Deer, there are 30,000 residents living north of the river with no expectations of a high school, while across the river there are 4 high schools now, and 2 more on the books.
Blackfalds is on track to have a 2nd covered ice rink, before the north of the river Red Deer residents get a 2nd covered ice rink. Across the river the south of the river, Red Deer residents are on track to have 7 indoor ice rinks.
Who is to blame for abandoning 1,000 plus students to long commutes, neighbourhoods without high school gyms, facilities and programs, and enough recreational facilities to meet their needs? When did it become acceptable to have parents and students living north of the river commute across the city often times more than twice a day? Making it difficult for students to participate in extra-curricular activities.
Is it a culture of structural societal discrimination that it is okay for children living north of the river to endure long commutes in rush hour traffic?
Blackfalds and Wolf Creek Public School Board are working to keep their children in their community, why aren’t the school boards and municipal leaders in Red Deer working to keep the children in their communities?
Red Deer communities living north of the river shrank in population by 777 residents according to Red Deer’s own municipal census, while Blackfalds grew by 700 residents. How many more will leave Red Deer and move to Blackfalds to allow their children to avoid long commutes to high school and have easier access for extra-curricular activities?
Is it this culture that saw Blackfalds grow while Red Deer shrank in population? Something to think about.
From the X account of Andrew Scheer
Mark Carney spent his entire life promoting the carbon tax.
Now he’s trying to scam Canadians out of billions and to do it he’s put a whole crew together.
It could be the biggest con job in Canadian history. Only YOU can stop it! pic.twitter.com/1DyywsynBN
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) February 22, 2025
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By Newt Gingrich
In an amazing show of courage, Vice President J.D. Vance offered an intervention for some of our European allies.
That is the best way to think of the two historic speeches he made in France and Germany last week.
In Paris, Vice President Vance pledged the United States would do whatever it takes to lead the world in the development of Artificial Intelligence. He went on to assert that Europe’s automatic response to regulate technological change rather than adapt to it was doomed to fail.
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Vance warned the Europeans that the Trump administration would retaliate to protect American high-tech companies from being fined and regulated by the European community.
Then, Vance went to the Munich Security Conference. It is the annual meeting of European leaders concerned about defense and threats to peace. The Vice President shocked the Europeans by launching a frontal assault on the decay of their political system.
As Vance put it:
“But while the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and we also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense, the threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America.”
He then went through a litany of specific complaints about the behavior of different European countries. They ranged from failing to control immigration, suppressing free speech, and Brussels seeking to control and define futures of independent countries such as Hungary and Romania.
The leading French newspaper, Le Monde (their equivalent of the New York Times) asserted that the American Vice President was declaring “ideological war on Europe.”
Le Monde was right. The European elites have been decaying for at least two generations. They hide behind their privileged status and take ideological positions that feel good but are destructive. Europe’s failures are devastating for most everyday Europeans.
I have personal knowledge about this. I have a Ph.D. in Modern European History – and I have lived in France, Germany, Belgium and Italy. As a young Army dependent, we were living in France when the French Army came back from Algeria, killed the French Fourth Republic and brought back General Charles de Gaulle to establish the Fifth Republic.
It is now the longest serving non-royal government in French history.
The European elites value each other’s opinions more than they value serving the people of Europe. The European elites live in a fantasy world of green policies that destroy industries and jobs, welfare policies which destroy the work ethic, and immigration policies which undermine the popular culture. They simply hope for a peaceful world without a strong military.
Meanwhile, state enforced speech codes protect Islamic extremists at the expense of local citizens.
The result has been a steady decline of European culture, economic development, and defensive capacity.
The Afghan Islamist who wounded more than two dozen people and killed a mother and her two-year-old daughter with a car two days before the supposed security conference signals the willful avoidance of reality at the heart of the elite European worldview.
To be clear, I admire European civilization. I believe America is far stronger and safer if Europe is healthy and capable of growing and defending itself.
I hope vice president Vance’s intervention at least starts European elites thinking about what must be done to revive their continent.
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