Letters to the Editor
Doctors’ pay scale needs restructuring
By Letter to the Editor on May 21st, 2020
A restructuring of our doctors’ pay scale is essential as what we have is not sustainable. Our doctors are the highest paid in all of Canada, and gobble up 30 per cent of our budget! Although many doctors use the present system fairly, there are others who are doubling, even tripling their average salary. The ... Read More »
5 responsesCity council and YouTube
By Letter to the Editor on May 21st, 2020
I owe a debt of gratitude to my local government, for without it I would never have discovered the LoungeV Films YouTube channel. Our mayor recently described the extensive work of the council as involving the formation of approximately 16 subcommittees dedicated to COVID responses. On Thursday, April 23, being a COVID shut-in, I figured ... Read More »
4 responsesFertilizer industry ready to do its part for supply chain
By Letter to the Editor on May 20th, 2020
A healthy agriculture supply chain is the key to Canada’s economic recovery in the coming months During this period of uncertainty for many industries across the country, Canadian farmers are working harder now more than ever to ensure that agriculture production continues as normal. Deemed an essential service by federal and provincial governments alike, the ... Read More »
6 responsesHow has COVID changed our lives?
By Letter to the Editor on May 16th, 2020
It’s not over, this COVID-19 crisis. We must continue to be observant and cautious about health and life. There are other questions we need to get on with. Can we go back to the way things were? What are the most important things to do now? I hear people talk about getting the economy growing ... Read More »
3 responsesRequest to shut down oil industry is misguided
By Letter to the Editor on May 16th, 2020
Seems some faculty and universities besides Lethbridge have departed from reality. How misinformed that group of staff who submitted to an equally misinformed prime minister a request for him to shut down Alberta’s oil industry. Universities live on government grants and in Alberta, over the years, energy royalties have been the greatest source of those ... Read More »
25 responsesPros and cons of COVID-19
By Letter to the Editor on May 15th, 2020
Before COVID-19, climate change was different in many industrial countries, such as China and India, where citizens wore face masks due to pollution in the atmosphere. Trump and the Conservatives did not believe this was a problem. Greta Thunberg was right when she said world leaders must be more involved in cleaning the atmosphere to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!If people can golf, they can garden
By Letter to the Editor on May 14th, 2020
I drove by the community garden location and was surprised that not one person was to be seen digging, planting, weeding, etc. Why not? The powers that be must have ruled that it would be unsafe and dangerous for folks to be outside in the sunshine and getting healthy exercise. Never mind that wholesome, nutritious ... Read More »
2 responsesCanada should forget UN seat bid
By Letter to the Editor on May 14th, 2020
Canada should withdraw its candidacy for one of the two seats in the June 2020 election of the UN Security Council for 2021-22. Ordinarily candidates are nominated well in advance so that no election is needed. For the 2020 vacancies Ireland announced in 2005, Norway in 2007. Belatedly, in 2016 Canada launched a hurried, expensive ... Read More »
1 responseNewspaper offers comfort
By Letter to the Editor on May 13th, 2020
Re: Lethbridge Herald Maybe you’re a lifeline to some of us – to feel the actual paper; to read the words; to do the puzzles; to feel a sense of hope that things will go on; that there are real people out there. No amount of online or TV or radio or even phone calls ... Read More »
2 responsesRoaster doesn’t have facts straight about Trudeau’s reno
By Letter to the Editor on May 13th, 2020
Re: “Two-faced Trudy … doing an $8.6-million reno on our dime…” Trudeau does not own the Harrington Lake cottage. It has belonged to the Government of Canada since 1959 and every prime minister since then has spent time there. To be very clear, public money is being spent on public property. Public money is not ... Read More »
2 responsesDeer cull would not be justified
By Letter to the Editor on May 13th, 2020
Donald Trump could not have said it better. I am referring to Al Barnhill’s attempt to justify a deer cull within the city (April 30 letter to the editor). That deer do indeed carry disease, chronic wasting disease (CWD) and Lyme disease (LD), is not in question. But here is the thing. CWD can only ... Read More »
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