March 28th, 2026
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Commentary

Letters to the Editor

  • Health care system improvements should be a proirity

    Dear editor,  In regards to MAiD.This is not about what is morally right or wrong. I lost someone very dear to me through MAiD. I think before we go putting restrictions on MAiD we need to fix the health care system. This person that was so dear to me  and still young at heart and [...] Read More »

    22 hours ago
  • ADAP will make life brutish and short

    Dear editor, I have been reading updates about the province’s ADAP program and the disabled community’s reaction to it. I think about my son. It would be wonderful to believe in the province’s fantasy of training disabled people to work fulfilling jobs. However, training has already been available for the disabled for decades now. Also [...] Read More »

    22 hours ago
  • LFES’s legacy now being threatened

    Dear editor, For over a century, Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services (LFES)has set the global standard for integrated emergency care. Today, that legacy is under direct and unacceptable threat. The Province, through EHS-Alberta, has issued the City a deadline of May 30, 2026: accept a cut-rate contract or be forced into a competitive bidding process. [...] Read More »

    22 hours ago
  • A Challenge for Separatists

    Editor: There are many reasons for Albertans to be unhappy with Ottawa. In fairness, I imagine there aren’t too many of our sister provinces and territories who are thrilled with Ottawa either. For over two years, Danielle Smith has thrown gasoline on the embers of separation. Encouraging Albertans to believe the Canadian dream is unsalvageable. [...] Read More »

    2 days ago
  • Funding cuts impacting Alberta Heritage

    Editor, I am writing in my capacity as the President of the Lethbridge Centre of the Archaeological Society of Alberta, one of the six ASA centres in the province. The recent provincial budget brought with it devastating news for Alberta Heritage. Three of the Provincial Heritage Organizations, including my society, the Archaeological Society of Alberta, [...] Read More »

    3 days ago

Opinions

  • Lethbridge doesn’t deserve ‘bargain-basement service’ when it comes to medical emergencies

    AT THE LEGISLATURE- Lethbridge West MLA Rob Miyashiro    If you own a home in Lethbridge, you’ve recently received your property assessment, an estimate of your home’s value that the City uses to calculate your property taxes for the year. The actual amount you’ll pay has not yet been determined because City Council must first [...] Read More »

    2 hours ago
  • Sometimes you just need to look through a telescope

    MORNING JOE-Joe Manio, Lethbridge Herald There’s a certain type of pedant who will proudly tell you where they went to school within the first five minutes of meeting them… as if the institution itself were a personality. Good for them. But let’s be honest… a diploma is not a personality. And it certainly isn’t proof [...] Read More »

    2 hours ago
  • From rabbit ears to rabbit holes

    Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Once upon a time…when I was a child growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 70s, “streaming options” meant adjusting the rabbit-ear antenna and hoping for the best. We had three main channels—ABC, CBS and NBC; plus a local station, KTVU, and my favourite…public television station [...] Read More »

    1 week ago
  • Mayor recaps proposed budget

    From the Hall- Mayor Blaine Hyggen   As typical of March, we have seen the return of winter, the start of spring, and a whole host of events going on in Lethbridge.  Following the recent announcement of the proposed 2026 Alberta Provincial Budget, our residents may be wondering what changes within it may impact their [...] Read More »

    1 week ago
  • The day the world turns Irish

    Morning Joe- Joe Manio Lethbridge Herald Every March 17, a strange transformation happens across Canada. Otherwise sensible adults put on novelty shamrock glasses, beer turns suspiciously green, and people with names like “Dave from Red Deer” suddenly insist they are one-sixteenth Irish on their mother’s cousin’s side. Welcome to St. Patrick’s Day — the one [...] Read More »

    2 weeks ago