Letters to the Editor
Now is the time for Premier Smith to ask the RCMP to investigate
By Lethbridge Herald on February 21st, 2025
Dear Editor, The UCP have been huddled for the last week planning how to divert attention away from the AHS scandal and select their scapegoat. No one believes for a moment that a Deputy minister, a bureaucrat, would act independent of the Minister or Premier’s wishes. It will be musical chairs within government to see ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Stand up, exercise some ethics and integrity
By Lethbridge Herald on February 19th, 2025
Dear Editor, Clearly Energy Minister Brian Jean does not operate from a position of ethics and integrity. Following is a review of facts and time line of the now infamous Grassy Mountain: 1976 –The Lougheed-led provincial government, after consultation with various parties, including constituents/stakeholders, imposed a moratorium on coal mining in the Eastern Slopes. January ... Read More »
17 responses‘No translation needed’: the Americans are coming, the Americans are coming
By Lethbridge Herald on February 19th, 2025
Dear Editor, Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere… Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem is about the American hero Paul Revere who, on April 18th, 1775, rode through the night to warn soldiers that “the British are coming, the British are coming.” Our modern-day Paul Revere has manifested into ... Read More »
6 responsesWhen wind and drought collide with sheer stupidity
By Lethbridge Herald on February 14th, 2025
Dear Editor, A letter to Premier Danielle Smith: Here in the extreme upper headwaters of the Crowsnest River, on the downstream, downwind side of Grassy Mountain, the devastating impacts of protracted drought, water shortages, hurricane-force winds, sandblasting dust storms, and dry lake beds dominate discussion. The mid-winter dust storms, widespread, are most apparent here within ... Read More »
12 responsesCanada needs to defend itself from its worst enemies within
By Lethbridge Herald on February 13th, 2025
Dear Editor, If Canada is to survive, it needs to defend itself from its worst enemies within. Free trade within Canada is liberating in principle, better than its current trade barriers. But globally, free trade resulted in global compartmentalizing: China for heavy industry, India for textiles, Canada as the resource attic, USA as world policeman ... Read More »
6 responsesFentanyl scare is latest bugaboo for America
By Lethbridge Herald on February 13th, 2025
Dear Editor, Those who think there is not just as much, or more, fentanyl being produced in labs throughout America, for Americans, as there is coming in from elsewhere are deluding themselves. Nowhere is the demand higher and nowhere are there more opportunistic, unscrupulous entrepreneurs ready and willing to accommodate it and fully exploit the ... Read More »
3 responsesWaiting is an integral part of life
By Lethbridge Herald on February 11th, 2025
Dear Editor, We love speed and hate waiting, even though we know it’s easy to make mistakes when we are in a hurry. Nevertheless, we prefer instant gratification. So we do stupid things because we don’t slow down. We must slow down, look around, and think where we are and what we are doing before ... Read More »
3 responsesDanielle Smith is premier of Alberta, not Minister of Foreign Affairs
By Lethbridge Herald on February 7th, 2025
Editor, Once again, David Carpenter has provided the residents of Alberta with a thoughtful, factual response to a very important issue: Premier Smith’s trip to Florida to lobby Mr. Trump for Alberta’s fossil fuel industry. A premier trying to directly negotiate with a U.S. president is a flagrant disregard of federal/provincial jurisdiction. Ms. Smith is ... Read More »
34 responsesTips to help fend off despair of living in a world gone mad
By Lethbridge Herald on February 7th, 2025
Editor, How can we survive the film-noire we’re currently living in? First, don’t buy American products and don’t travel to USA. Second, recognize the root cause of all this, that is conservative politicians (under various names like PC, UCP, Republican), sowing seeds of chaos to breakdown our society so that, ultimately, the ignorant masses will ... Read More »
9 responsesVisibility is key for brain trauma issue
By Lethbridge Herald on February 7th, 2025
Editor, I have been involved with the initiatives of the Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF) (https://concussionfoundation.ca/) and the Mac Parkman Foundation (https://www.mpfact.com/), championing their essential mission to enhance public understanding of brain trauma and injury, particularly Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), and strategies for its prevention. The efforts to promote brain safety awareness are of utmost importance, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Danielle Smith was out of line to meet with Trump in U.S.
By Lethbridge Herald on February 1st, 2025
Editor, Once again, David Carpenter has provided the residents of Alberta with a thoughtful, factual response to a very important issue: Premier Smith’s trip to Florida to lobby Mr. Trump for Alberta’s fossil fuel industry. A premier trying to directly negotiate with a U.S. president is a flagrant disregard of federal/provincial jurisdiction. Ms. Smith is ... Read More »
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