Commentary

Editor, Does anyone else feel there is too much violence and competition about money on television programs?  Solutions to problems seem mostly to be solved by shoot-outs, fist fights or violence. Is it the way television executives see our society? Now it seems to be the way the world sees America.  Television was sold to [...] Read More »

Editor, A Crowsnest Pass Herald editorial was used to convey surprise that protesters opposed to the Alberta Energy Regulator’s recent approval of further Grassy Mountain coal exploration would choose to protest in Crowsnest Pass as they did in mid-May.  Could it be that the location was selected because it’s just a stone’s throw from Northback [...] Read More »

Editor, Since our “commoners” letters  regarding the foreign interest of Northback mining coal in our beautiful province  to Ms. Smith and her provincial assistants and the Alberta Energy Regulator fall on deaf ears (with an automatic form letter starting out with “good day” no less),  I wonder if writing now to Julie Dabrusin, Prime Minister [...] Read More »

Editor, This is not meant to be hateful or to spark debate. I want to be clear: while gender ideology is a hot topic in Lethbridge right now, recognize that I am talking about children in elementary schools. I have children coming up on school age and upon registering them for kindergarten in the Lethbridge [...] Read More »

Editor, Re: Housing is more unaffordable than ever, Herald, May 22. Around the world, urban populations have skyrocketed. In most European countries, strict land-use regulations are critical to limit urban sprawl and to protect land used for food production. Anyone driving from Lethbridge to both Coaldale and Calgary will see an explosion of acreages with huge single [...] Read More »

Brock Eldon C2C Journal Pierre Poilievre’s loss in Canada’s 2025 federal election wasn’t merely a matter of strategic mistakes or media bias. It marked another chapter in a half-century pattern of cultural retreat by Canadian conservatives. While conservatives talk economics, the left seizes culture—and with it, the future. As a Canadian expatriate returning after a [...] Read More »

Lorne Fitch For the Herald Another piece of research has just revealed the contamination of trout and mountain whitefish in Crowsnest Lake with selenium, derived from the legacy Tent Mountain coal strip mine (Fish remain high in selenium long after mountaintop coal mines close, GOA 2025).  Scientists from the government of Alberta have confirmed  that [...] Read More »

Tadashi (Tad) Mitsui For the Herald We will all die.  I wonder how the garish narcissist of the South would cope with such idea as his own death. Last two years at the church, I was a part of the discussion group about “death and dying.”  We met once a month.  From the outset, we [...] Read More »

Michael Taube Troy Media Rules are rules. That, in a nutshell, is why the NDP wasn’t granted official party status in the House of Commons on Monday. Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals, to their credit, made the right decision. Let’s examine why. The 1963 Senate and House of Commons Act passed an amendment [...] Read More »

Faith Wood Troy Media We didn’t lose trust in each other overnight. It happened slowly, over decades, as we shifted from a culture of responsibility to one of blame. Now, in a world drowning in outrage, mistrust has become the default setting. Everywhere you look, on social media, in politics, in the news, the tone [...] Read More »