Letters to the Editor
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 »
Be the first to comment!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 »
4 responsesWe 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 »
5 responsesAlberta’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 »
2 responsesAlbertans 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 »
3 responsesWhy block pipeline that will provide welcome employment?
By Letter to the Editor on March 13th, 2020
Re: Letter of Dave Sheppard, “who owns unceded land in B.C.” Dave Sheppard is probably right. But I don’t see what that has to do with a pipeline crossing Wet’suwet’en land. Twenty duly-elected chiefs and councils have nothing against it. And they are corporate owners of said lands. They rightly see it as a welcome ... Read More »
15 responsesDon’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 »
1 responseLook 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 »
5 responsesProvince’s closing of parks is shortsighted
By Letter to the Editor on March 12th, 2020
To say that I am deeply ashamed of our provincial government right now would be a vast understatement. Closing our parks and handing them over to third parties for “budgetary reasons” is one of the most idiotic and shortsighted things I’ve ever heard. Alberta prides itself on its beautiful scenery, from the untamed majesty of ... Read More »
8 responsesWhere’s the accountability in justice system?
By Letter to the Editor on March 12th, 2020
And once again there is no accountability for a criminal. The 29-year-old that was acquitted in a drug-fuelled attack was so intoxicated he was at the point of impaired consciousness from alcohol and illegal drugs. Then he did another illegal act by breaking into a 60-year-old woman’s home, then yet another illegal act by beating ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fossil fuels will continue to play a vital role
By Letter to the Editor on March 11th, 2020
We must save the people on our planet from people who insist on “saving the planet” from climate catastrophe predicted for decades but never realized. Global mortality from all natural disasters has decreased by 99 per cent since 1920 while the world’s population trebled thanks to improved economies and technologies provided by our modern industrialized ... Read More »
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