By Lethbridge Herald on August 30, 2025.
Editor,
Who among us would steal from their children’s piggy bank?
Is this an act that makes us, or our children better or wiser? Is it our pride that makes us brag that we are the richest resource province; yet we pay the lowest minimum wage to our coworkers and children?
Something is amiss in Alberta when we howl at the feds because we are required to help our less well-endowed cousins in other provinces.
What kind of religion is it that encourages NIMBY attitudes in our neighbours? Do we feel self-righteous huddled around our back yard barbecues wolfing down sirloins when we know there are many we banish from our lanes because they sleep in tents?
What kind of God is worshipped here, and what kind of Heaven do we expect to graduate to?
We Albertans have been known to cut taxes for the rich so we don’t have to show a huge surplus in our economy. Yet we insist there is no money to help other Canadians who have to boil drinking and wash water.
I personally have heard people brag about how our society has advanced from Charles Dicken’s days. Yet we hire people to harass the poor and hungry sleeping in our parks. Does it ease our conscience to hand them a plastic water bottle while we urge them to move on?
There used to be a statue in front of one of our hospitals showing Saint Micheal spearing a dragon. I wonder who that dragon was meant to represent?
Don Ryane
Lethbridge
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One type of prominent religion in southern Alberta that, unfortunately, can “foster an ‘invisible hand’ of market logic that prioritizes corporate needs over individual well-being,” is capitalist Calvinism. Many of us raised in this right wing, corporate, capitalist culture have walked away from it. Some of us have joked that instead of a cross on the wall behind the pulpit, there should be a dollar sign.
great reply to a worthy letter
What has the true conservatives in my world so furious is the lack of compassion these Reformers and the idiots who support them show our children and grandchildren for the horrible financial mess they must face created by the Reformers. It hasn’t happened in Alaska or Norway and it wasn’t happening under Lougheed or Getty.
Danielle Smith got a standing ovation in Vermilion by mostly seniors we are told by promising to start kicking out our foreigners, Donald Trump style and promoting separation from Canada.
To prove how stupid she is, her and her education minister still believe that by removing books from libraries they are controlling pornography in schools, yet as our grandchildren point out they have cell phones and can access all the pornography they want anytime they want it and it’s a lot worse than anything you will find in any of those books. So are so stupid they are living in the past.
the old conservative adage of noblesse oblige was not perfect, but it sure was a much better perspective than the greed based approach of the neo-con and the neo-lib