Opinions
Market not responsible for out of control rents
By Lethbridge Herald on February 17th, 2023
Ricardo Tranjan CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES A new report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) shows that rents are skyrocketing in many, if not most, Canadian cities. No surprise there. But this year’s annual report also documents, for the first time, rent increases in vacant units. It shows rents going up by ... Read More »
3 responsesCanada needs real discount grocery stores
By Lethbridge Herald on February 16th, 2023
Sylvain Charlebois Dalhousie University This may come as a surprise to some Canadians, but our country doesn’t really have a real discount grocery chain. With higher food prices and a growing number of consumers seeking refuge from record-setting food inflation at the grocery store, real discount grocery stores would really come in handy. But the ... Read More »
3 responsesMuch work and collaboration going into budget
By Lethbridge Herald on February 11th, 2023
AT THE LEGISLATURE Nathan Neudorf – UCP MLA for Lethbridge East We did it! We survived January: the month that always feels like a year. I don’t know about you but I always feel like the New Year really starts when February comes around. Still, January has been a productive month. I spent many hours ... Read More »
6 responsesJust Transition comes with big costs to Canada
By Lethbridge Herald on February 10th, 2023
Franco Terrazzano and Kris Sims CANADIAN TAXPAYERS FEDERATION Ottawa seems to have only one message about its Just Transition policy: “trust me.” How many people’s jobs are on the line? How much will it cost? Are the numbers bubbling up accurate? Those are big questions that matter a lot to a lot of people. And ... Read More »
8 responsesTrudeau is out of touch with Canadians
By Lethbridge Herald on February 4th, 2023
FROM THE HILL Rachael Thomas – Conservative Member of Parliament for Lethbridge “Canadians have never had it so good.” Right before Christmas, Prime Minister Trudeau made this statement to a crowd of more than 2,000 Liberal lobbyists, political staffers, and consultants. For everyone in that room, he was right. After all, he was speaking to ... Read More »
3 responsesTrusting CRA to handle tax returns a mistake
By Lethbridge Herald on February 3rd, 2023
Renaud Brossard MONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTE Nobody likes filing tax returns. Tracking down pay slips, filing away proofs for every deduction and filling out forms is very few people’s idea of a fun way to spend their time. Even worse is having to do it twice, if you happen to live in Quebec. That’s why things ... Read More »
2 responsesPrivate health insurance would ease suffering
By Lethbridge Herald on February 2nd, 2023
Maria Lily Shaw MONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTE Over 660,000 Canadians are waiting for surgery at the moment, with many waiting long monts and even years. For these people, each day stuck on a waiting list is 24 more hours of sore knees, of pain when walking, of risking that their condition deteriorates, and so on. And ... Read More »
4 responsesHealthcare on the minds of residents and the NDP
By Lethbridge Herald on January 28th, 2023
AT THE LEGISLATURE Shannon Phillips – NDP MLA for Lethbridge West The bustling holiday season is over and we’ve all had a few weeks of recalibrating to normal life again. School, work, volunteering, and more are back in full swing. For me, part of that means reaching out and listening to the concerns of my ... Read More »
6 responsesEnergy transition needs to be done right
By Lethbridge Herald on January 27th, 2023
Bill Whitelaw Geologic Systems Have you heard about Canada’s unjust energy transition? Better pay attention: it’s unfolding before your very eyes. The unjust transition will cost people jobs, create new and more insidious types of energy poverty, and accelerate negative environmental impact – the very opposite effects of what the putative notion of a just ... Read More »
6 responsesNew alcohol guidelines hard to swallow
By Lethbridge Herald on January 26th, 2023
Sylvain Charlebois DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY Looks like we all need to drink less alcohol. Last fall, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), a national organization that provides information and advice on substance use and addiction, shared recommendations that we should all drink no more than one or two drinks a week. We just ... Read More »
5 responsesTrudeau’s tax hikes will harm the middle class in 2023
By Lethbridge Herald on January 19th, 2023
Franco Terrazzano CANADIAN TAXPAYERS FEDERATION Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to govern for “the middle class and those working hard to join it.” Canadians can be forgiven if we feel he’s forgotten that promise. Whether it’s the nurse working at the hospital, the mom who commutes to work each day or the newcomers to Canada ... Read More »
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