Commentary

Editor, An open letter to Premier Smith: So you are pushing an Alberta police force on us? Municipalities do not want one; Albertans do not want one; You have not given us any information on how much this will cost forsetting them up infrastructure, training, etc. etc.   Who is making money out of this [...] Read More »

Editor, Invocation of the Notwithstanding Clause of the Charter is a five-year, time-limited endeavour, so that voters can decide at election time whether the invocation was reasonable in the circumstances. Voters, please remember this when it is time to vote in the next Alberta election. If it is not bad enough that the Premier makes [...] Read More »

Editor, As a resident of Lethbridge-East, I can no longer remain silent while my MLA, Nathan Neudorf, continues to endorse a government that undermines the very principles it claims to defend.  The recent use of the Notwithstanding Clause to legislate Alberta’s teachers back to work was not leadership — it was coercion. It stripped educators [...] Read More »

Editor, Despite what you may think from the media coverage, what’s going on in Alberta goes far beyond a teacher’s strike. Regardless of your position on the strike, you should be deeply concerned about Bill 2, which was rushed through the legislature on October 28th, and the implications it has for our rights as Albertans. [...] Read More »

Editor, Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that Canada will increase its military budget to 5 per cent of GDP by 2035, and the upcoming federal budget is expected to set the groundwork for Canada to meet this commitment (‘Defence Minister…confident budget will pass,’ Oct. 31, 2025) Currently, Canada’s military budget represents 1.37 per cent [...] Read More »

Scott Sakatch Lethbridge Herald Editor One of the guiding principles of journalism is that, when it comes to government, watch what they do, not what they say. That old aphorism has been on my mind quite a bit in the last 10 days or so since the UCP government passed Bill 2 to force striking [...] Read More »

Tom Johnston For the Herald On July 1, 2026, we will celebrate Canada’s 159th birthday. For much of that time Montréal was Canada’s largest city and top dog in terms of economic power. Fast forward to today and Toronto is now at the top of Canada’s economic hierarchy, Montréal is second, Vancouver third, Calgary fourth, [...] Read More »

Michelle Hewitt Quoi Media The Trump tariff storm has rattled Canada’s economy, and our growing NATO defence commitments have driven up federal spending. Against that backdrop, it’s no surprise that Prime Minister Carney’s first budget is expected to double down on his election promise to “Build Canada.” But what about the people who depend on [...] Read More »

Rachael Thomas Lethbridge Member of Parliament Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney stood before a room of young Canadians at the University of Ottawa and told them their “future will not be the same as [his] past,” which, he said, “was a time of optimism, of hope, and of promise.”  How demoralizing. Carney went on [...] Read More »

Doreen Barrie For the Herald The Alberta government will be paying millions of precious tax-payer dollars to two Australian coal companies, Evolve Power and Atrum Coal, which claimed de facto expropriation due to changes in provincial coal policy. We can expect further payouts to others that have sued the government on similar grounds. (That companies [...] Read More »