Opinion
When it comes to facilities north of the river, am I beating a dead horse?
33 years ago the last school to be built north of the river opened it’s doors.
37 years ago the last swimming pool, (G.H.Dawe) opened it’s doors north of the river.
There has never been a high school built north of the river.
Odd since about one third of Red Deer’s population lives north of the river, sometimes going up to 40%.
Twice yesterday, it was suggested that I give up on lobbying for a high school north of the river.
It is tiresome for others as it is not going to happen. It has already been decided, no matter what public needs demand.
So when should a person give up trying to right a wrong, fight an injustice? Never.
Does it make people, bureaucrats and politicians uncomfortable and thus write this off as the ramblings of a grumpy old man? Apparently.
The city will have 6 high schools south of the river and 5 of those east of 30 Ave. There are fewer residents east of 30 Ave than north of the river but they will have 5 high schools to choose from with easy and quick access, while 1/3 of the students will have to commute across the city twice a day, even more if they wish to participate in extra-curricular activities.
I have been accused of being a one-trick pony, and to give it up.
There are 12 recreational complexes in Red Deer, indoor pools, rinks, curling and skating yet 11 of them are south of the river, with the 37 year old Dawe Center being the only one in the north. This time there are 4 of the 9 councillors and mayor supporting building the next aquatic centre north of the river.
That only took 37 years to get a possible, maybe in 4 more years we may possibly get another school north of the river.
Maybe I should not give up, just yet.
Maybe this old man, residing in the south end of town, (Sunnybrook), who will never attend a new school or swim in a new pool, defy his critics and continue to fight a continued decades old injustice?
Any objections?
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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