Lethbridge deserves an apology for comments
By Letter to the Editor on June 23, 2021.
Editor:
Lethbridge should be demanding an apology from the Senior Medical Director of the Blood/Kainai!
She is quoted as saying in a local paper “The closure of Lethbridge’s Supervised Consumption Site led to nearly 100 deaths of Blood Tribe members in the months that followed.”
That, from Dr. Esther Tailfeathers who is the Senior Medical Director of the Provincial Indigenous Wellness Core at Alberta Health Services..
Dr. TailFeathers must be held accountable for this outrage. She knows this is nothing but grandstanding and an attempt to defer the failure under her watch to ensure the safety and security of Blood/Kainai residents!
The First Nations submissions to Alberta Health Services clearly show she has no idea what she is talking about!
The year she describes there were in fact 94 deaths and out of the 94, 13 occurred in Lethbridge.
Go back in the Alberta Archives one year to the FN submission for 2019 when the SCS was open and you will find that in that year there was 16 First Nations deaths in Lethbridge!
So I am really not sure what Dr. Tailfeathers, is doing other than to attempt to blame Lethbridge residents and Lethbridge and hide her failure to ensure the safety and quality of life of the people of the Blood/Kainai!
Lethbridge, I demand a retraction and an apology for this outrage!
The City and council should investigate this outrageous claim and demand the same, this cannot stand!
Ref: https://www.alberta.ca/substance-use-surveillance-data.aspx#jumplinks-4
Dennis Bremner
Lethbridge
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Good luck with that.
Yep, kind of busy with other things, Erasing 100 years with the letter L and a couple of squiggley lines and an interpretation video. Reason. Mayor says no one knew what the Latin words at the bottom of the City crest meant. Can’t make that up.
Quote Lethbridge, I demand a retraction and an apology for this outrage!
Should read, Lethbridge AND I demand a retraction and an apology for this outrage!