Group hopes Christmas cards will make a point with city’s MLAs
By Lethbridge Herald on December 18, 2025.
Alexandra Noad
Lethbridge Herald
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A group of canvassers for the Alberta Funds Public School petition will be staged outside of Nathan Neudorf’s office on Friday, to collect signatures for the petition and Christmas cards for both of the city’s MLAs.
Sheila King, one of the canvassers, says she got the idea after hearing several people share their frustrations about the lack of responses to letters sent to Neudorf.
“I’m reading a lot of comments on Facebook about how frustrated people are in terms of writing to their MLAs and not getting any responses.”
She adds there have been many rallies held and wanted to something more lowkey and with it being the Christmas season she thought sending a Christmas card would be a good way to spread Christmas cheer and maybe a message or two.
“(I) thought what we could do is hold a petition signing on the public office and then we could also advertise that people could drop off Christmas cards to Mr. Neudorf.
While the event is outside of Neudorf’s office, King says cards will also be accepted for Rob Miyashiro, MLA for Lethbridge East.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own cards, however, there will be a few extra available for those who don’t have their own.
King says she has sent Neudorf a couple of letters and only received a generic letter back with nothing personal in them.
She adds that she only recently began to become active in the political world when the UCP, including Neudorf, voted in favour of using the notwithstanding clause to order teachers back to work.
However, King has noticed the lack of newsletters or town halls hosted by Neudorf, unlike Lethbridge MP Rachael Thomas.
“When I look back, I don’t recall ever receiving a notification as a constituent about a town hall meeting or quarterly letters sent out or a monthly newsletter.”
King adds this lack of communication leaves Neudorf’s constituency in the dark about issues he’s working on.
“I don’t know, as a utilities minister, what kinds of projects he’s working on or what sort of issues he’s looking into within our constituency.”
An example of this was the lack of public input for allowing doctors to practice both privately and publicly or the things bundled in Bill 14.
“There wasn’t any attempt to reach out to us here at a local level to see what we thought about some of these ideas.”
King emphasizes this event is not a rally, but a come and go event. It will take place on the sidewalk in front of 550 WT Hill Blvd from 1-2 p.m. The Raging Grannies will also be preforming a few songs and participants are welcome to join in the singing.
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I would imagine that they would go directly into garbage. Unread
Unrelated: The other day 3 Global TV News presenters were enthusiastic about efforts of young entrepreneurs selling crewneck on which they impressed this slogan….
“NOTHING MATTERS
NOBODY CARES
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE”
The three Global News, weather people each wanted one at $55.65+ each.
Is nihilism now the main mindset of Alberta youth? Of yours?
It’s easy to understand when our Alberta elected UCP now think that it’s not their job to help Albertans. Judge them by their actions not their scripts.
Just an observation.
Of course it is mainly for the media consumption & broadcast.