Letters: Regina City Council’s Airport noise restrictions excessive

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Why does Regina city council continue to make poor policy decisions harmful to Regina’s economic growth and ultimately harmful to Regina’s citizens?

In this case, council responded to the Regina airport’s unsubstantiated agenda to limit the number of residents experiencing low or manageable airport noise. Instead of national standards, thousands of Regina residents are now subjected to excessive regulations.

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Until this change, Regina has properly used regulations followed by most other Canadian airports. The scales are being tipped toward unnecessary airport protection and away from a balanced approach to land use development.

Regina needs affordable housing, policies that support the rejuvenation of neighbourhoods, and cost effective strategies to develop new residential land. Let’s become the vibrant city we were all promised by our newly elected city councillors.

There is still time for Regina city council to vote against excessive airport vicinity restrictions.

Louise Mohr, Regina

Airport noise changes unreasonable

I have read the article on Harbour Landing expansion at risk. I know that if you build a new house to high energy efficiency standards you also get a quiet house. Let’s encourage investors to build neighbourhoods that residents need and want to these standards whether near the airport or anywhere else.

It seems unreasonable that the city has unilaterally changed zoning without a grandfathering clause or phase-in period for existing neighbourhoods or property owners.

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Linda Paul, Regina

Kudos to play on T.C. Douglas, Pere Murray

Congratulations and a big thank-you to Curtain Razors for resurrecting a piece of Saskatchewan history in the play “Tommy and Père”, staged at the Regina Science Centre.

It is based on a debate during the Medicare Crisis of 1962 when most of Saskatchewan’s doctors withdrew their services to protest the provincial government passing the Medicare Act to deliver universal publicly funded medical care to the Saskatchewan population.

The play is a heated debate between then premier T.C. Douglas who sponsored the Medicare Act and Father Athol Murray, principal of Notre Dame College at Wilcox, who opposed it. 

The public atmosphere of the time was worry and tension. The role of Douglas was played by Jayden Pfeifer and Cavan Cunningham played Father Murray.

The play was written by Arthur Milner and directed by Judy Wensel. The argument by those opposed to medicare was that government should not be involved in the personal lives of the population and if you needed care you should pay for it privately.

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Having experienced the benefits of publicly funded medicare for more than 60 years, it’s hard to imagine that there was ever opposition to the service. The actors did a very professional job of recreating the personalities, arguments and atmosphere of the time.

Verda Petry, Regina 

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