Opinion
Public hearing on Molly Banister Extension moved to unknown location on Oct 27.
The public hearing on Big Money vs. Quality of Life has been moved to an unknown location on Oct 27 2020.
Red Deer’s city hall is bending over backwards and expending a lot of capital and effort to accommodate a developer.
Why? 3 times the citizens have been polled by questionaire, responses, and debates and the majority has always supported the Molly Banister Extension. Since 1970s the issue has come up, and the need to accommodate growth, transportation and emergency services, won out.
During that time nearly 500 families backing onto 32 St. 19 St. and 40 Ave have seen increased traffic with no end in sight. Bower Mall was built as a buffer from the Molly Bannister Extension with the understanding that the Extension would be built to allow traffic to access the mall. CBC reported that our air quality was the poorest in Alberta which had the poorest air quality in Canada. Thousands of people have to detour around Sunnybrook and Southbrook to access south side commercial enterprises. 19 St has been expanded to facilitate access to Gasoline Alley, at the detriment to downtown businesses.
The hearing on whether to build 50 houses along the river or build the the extension will be held on Oct. 27 at 1 pm.
The trail is in the field on the west side of the trees near Barrett Drive. It comes out of the trees just about where the bridge would exit, and create a crosswalk for the trail. Solar powered crosswalk lights could be installed, but that would mean a six second delay for hikers, bikers and skaters, but that would save a reported 6 minutes of driving for thousands of people.
Along the east side of the creek, that is filled with dead fall, and blow down, is polluted and choked with weeds after flowing through 2 landfills and a cow pasture there is a fence, 6 foot barb wire topped game-proof fence that kept the cows in. The extension would run along a fence-less woodland but 50 houses would simply have new fencing.
50 houses would introduce non-native plants, grasses and weeds along with pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fertilizers and pet waste. The extension would see a road in the future, possibly a bridge. 50 houses would use up about 16 acres while the bridge would take up 1 acre. 50 houses would need a road (albeit a residential road) like the extension.
Molly Banister borders mainly on commercial properties about 95% while 32 Street borders mainly on residential properties about 95% and the plan is for 6 lanes for 32 Street and 19 Street.
50 houses means bigger profits for big money but it means diminished quality of life for thousands of people for many, many, many years. The Molly Banister Extension still means big profits for big money. means a better quality of life to thousands for years and it helps lowers the emissions spewing into our air.
Please let the city know your thoughts by e-mailing [email protected]. Thank you.
See you at the hearing at its unknown location on October 27.
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.
For more commentary from Newt Gingrich, visit Gingrich360.com. Also subscribe to the Newt’s World podcast.
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