November 7th, 2024

Letters to the Editor

Trapped in limbo of the system’s dysfunction

By Letter to the Editor on March 21st, 2020

I am the loving and proud single father of a severe >and complex young adult man with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Our lives are in a serious crisis and my future prospect to continue contributing emotionally and financially to his lifelong well-being is seriously threatened. The frustrating thing is that Alberta has potentially paid between $750,000 ... Read More »

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Person should not have to put up with indignities

By Letter to the Editor on March 20th, 2020

This letter was inspired by both the newspaper article with Shannon Phillips and Ryan Gerstenbuhler and the “Good Doctor,” Dr. W. Gifford-Jones’ March 12 column. Dr. Gifford-Jones asked a question in his column: Why are families so polite when loved ones are suffering? His article is about needless pain that sick people are enduring when ... Read More »

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With surveys, it’s how question is asked

By Letter to the Editor on March 19th, 2020

From time to time, I read reports of surveys conducted by Lethbridge College showing that southern Albertans are becoming increasingly supportive of abortion and euthanasia. I have always been skeptical of these surveys and now I know why, having taken part in one myself. John Warren (March 10 Letters) argues that our MP should follow ... Read More »

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No lever left to use in promoting oil industry

By Letter to the Editor on March 18th, 2020

The former grand poo-bah of the now defunct Wildrose Party of Alberta, the otherwise estimable Brian Jean, is currently exhibiting the political acumen of a pocket gopher in his fevered pronouncements of righteous fury to do with Alberta’s place in the apparently grand shambles that is our national confederation. The noise coming from him is ... Read More »

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Support local businesses during turbulent time

By Letter to the Editor on March 18th, 2020

It is no secret that with the recent announcement of the UCP budget, which further cuts public-sector jobs in health care, research and post-secondary education among others, and in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic affecting international markets, economic stability is a bit tenuous at the moment. Fortunately, there is a way to dampen ... Read More »

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An open letter from docs on the front lines

By Letter to the Editor on March 17th, 2020

We are emergency physicians in Alberta, and we need you to read this. We see a potential disaster coming that may result in an overwhelmed health-care system and much suffering. We have seen this in Italy and elsewhere. Right now, in Italian hospitals, front-line physicians are choosing who lives and dies; people who could otherwise ... Read More »

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We must all do what we can: open letter from emergency doctors

By Lethbridge Herald on March 16th, 2020

An Open Letter from the Front Lines: We are Emergency Physicians in Alberta, and we need you to read this. We see a potential disaster coming that may result in an overwhelmed health care system and much suffering. We have seen this in Italy and elsewhere. Right now, in Italian hospitals, front line physicians are ... Read More »

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Albertans need their parks to enjoy nature and destress

By Letter to the Editor on March 16th, 2020

I am appalled to learn that the Government of Alberta is planning to close, sell or hand over to public enterprises many of Alberta’s provincial parks, especially at a time when there is so much stress in the community caused by the government’s budget, the spread of the COVID-19 virus and the need to increase ... Read More »

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Alberta’s parks belong to everyone; they’re not Jason Kenney’s to sell

By Letter to the Editor on March 16th, 2020

Alberta’s parks are part of our identity. They are representative of our past – many influential Albertans have a park named in their honour – and they serve as a gathering place for the young families that represent our future. As the Environment and Parks Critic for the Alberta NDP Official Opposition, I am deeply ... Read More »

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Don’t privatize our parks

By Letter to the Editor on March 13th, 2020

I wish to inform you all in the provincial government’s head positions that you must not take your dreaded announced steps to privatize our beautiful public parks. That is such a sad idea. We citizens in Alberta do enjoy visiting our parks, as we have for many years. We have been very willing over the ... Read More »

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Look at the effects, not perception

By Letter to the Editor on March 13th, 2020

The most telling reportage on the Supervised Consumption Site report showed up on the second page, at the very end of the article, in the March 6 Herald, where Rod Knect, the co-chair of the review panel, told a reporter: “ÉWhen people are using the site itself, they’re being supervised, they’re tended to, their street ... Read More »

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