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Earl Choldin, Edmonton
Repurpose Esks name
Can you really see the home crowd cheering Go Elks in our lifetime, or some other equally strange and uncomfortable term?
The name Esks in the past has been short for Eskimos. Now that some have expressed the view that it is derogatory to refer to the Inuit with that term, an out-of-the-box strategy would be to discard that connection to our team and replace it with another definition that has no negative association.
A simple Google search will reveal that the term Esk has another meaning in the old Celtic language which means river. With Edmonton being commonly known as the River City, it would make good and timely sense to connect with one or more river mottos or mascots.
This way, we could continue to refer to our team fondly as EE and the Edmonton Esks Football Club. Little or nothing would be lost, we’d preserve some connection with our accomplishments and storied past, and any offence previously alleged would be resolved. In short, win-win.
Ian Hope, St. Albert
UCP not swayed from privatization
Advocates and caregivers for medically fragile and developmentally disabled Albertans have every right to be very concerned about the privatization of congregate care facilities by the UCP government. As of July 21, 82 per cent of COVID-19 deaths in Alberta have been our seniors living in congregate care facilities, 90 per cent of which are run by private, for-profit organizations. If you break the cases down further, three out of every four deaths of these seniors have occurred in private, for-profit facilities.
