Letters, Aug. 17: Edmonton Elks name hurt the team

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Having been a die-hard Edmonton sports fan for over fifty years, since the name change of our football team, I haven’t attended or watched on tv any games. It’s been over three years, and it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to realize the name change is the main reason the team’s attendance has declined. But it has never been admitted.

Kelly Kadla

(The on-field performance had nothing to do with it?)

A recent report confirms previous studies and what many shoppers have endured — perhaps unknowingly — for quite some time. The report identifies as much as 20% of products have been the subject of shrinkflation over the last five years. Naturally, getting less product for the same or higher price means much lower value for consumers, who are already seeing grocery budgets stretched to or beyond the breaking point. Federal legislators could implement a solution that is virtually cost-free for the government and consumers. As is the law in some other countries, manufacturers could be mandated to display on labels products that have been affected by shrinkflation, showing the percentage reduction and the resulting increased price per unit (ounce, pound, dozen, etc.). Including revised per-unit information would ensure price increases instituted (read: sneaked in) at the same time as size reductions would be obvious to consumers. They may not boycott the product, but they would be armed with information on which to base purchase decisions or change brands. How about it, Jagmeet Singh? You’re so seized with fighting for “struggling Canadians,” when will your Dippers introduce such a private member’s bill and force Comrade Justin Trudeau to pass it?

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Mike Alain

(A little more transparency would certainly be welcome.)

Russia’s Vladimir Putin hypocritically criticizes then punishes Ukraine when the latter’s forces dare to strike back against Russia’s deliberate targeting and killing of civilians and destruction of infrastructure. According to his own words, Putin is astonished and angry, as though Ukraine has no right to self-defense. It reveals a misplaced sense of entitlement by Putin; indeed, the classic high-school bully. And Putin will absurdly justify its first-strike attacks against Ukrainian civilians as a necessity of ‘de-nazifying’ their democratically elected government. I say, first ‘de-nazify’ Russia’s Kremlin and especially its presidency, as they are in bed with far-right European political parties like the German AfD!

Frank Sterle, Jr.

(Putin’s rhetoric is difficult to swallow.)

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