Letters to the Editor
Canada is missing in action
By Letter to the Editor on January 28th, 2020
What is the government waiting for? The international community has pledged a new round of disease prevention through the Global Polio Initiative, but Canada is nowhere to be found. Vaccinations are the cheapest, most effective way to prevent disease and reduce poverty worldwide. Disease and poverty are twin sides of the same coin: someone suffering ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Loss of wetlands is an overlooked biodiversity crisis
By Letter to the Editor on January 25th, 2020
Feb. 2, World Wetlands Day, forces all of us to come to terms with an environmental crisis happening right in our own backyard. It’s a crisis just as damaging as those being experienced by rainforests, coral reefs and the Australian Outback. The loss of wetlands in Alberta, in Canada and around the world continues at ... Read More »
1 responseFunding cuts always affect the ‘little people’
By Letter to the Editor on January 24th, 2020
Because of cuts to government income from taxes and resource revenue, we have seen cuts to services to the public and layoffs. We have seen increases in fees, and reductions in education and health programs. There is even talk of privatizing some government services to make them more “efficient” – did that work with AGT/Telus, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Is Alberta gov’t really helping citizens?
By Letter to the Editor on January 24th, 2020
Does the Alberta government care about people with disabilities when they don’t care about the seniors? They talk about how we are to look at how a six-per-cent increase to funding for the people with disabilities (PDD), seven per cent for Community and Social Services (CSS), and eight per cent for Family Support for Children ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta needs thinkers and doers
By Letter to the Editor on January 23rd, 2020
The latest word from the UCP government that universities will face a “performance-based model of funding starting April 1” may be the most depressing announcement yet. As Albertans, we are being forced to diversify and transition our economy away from oil and gas. This is a hard transition and we’ve experienced the effects of this ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Point the finger at the planet’s big emitters
By Letter to the Editor on January 22nd, 2020
“We” is used recklessly in the media today, particularly when referencing “environment,” and SAGE (Southern Alberta Group for the Environment), in their message “What are your emissions?,” Lethbridge Herald, Jan. 17, used it most disingenuously, leaving out of their “emissions” story extremely important components. Stating China’s emissions is 7.7 tonnes/capita and Canada’s is 16.7 tonnes ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta gov’t making life tougher for seniors and others
By Letter to the Editor on January 21st, 2020
Let’s look at our “Money” Conservative party. Show us the money! What? No debt. What? No support. What? No medical. What? No education. What? No home. They are cutting the corporate income taxes which the workers bear the cost of by not having a job. This will help our debt! How? $4 billion per year ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!It’s lazy to blame CO2 emissions for wildfires in Australia
By Letter to the Editor on January 18th, 2020
An apocalyptic theme of fire and transformation plays to our sense of foreboding. We naturally intuit Australia’s fires as a sign of the end. What lurks behind this nightmare spectacle? Start with Australia’s actual climate – it hasn’t changed. Its latitude on Earth is in the southern hemisphere’s desert belt, with the Namib and the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Thanks for helping the rich get richer
By Letter to the Editor on January 17th, 2020
I happen to be over 65 years old, but my wife is under 65. She just received notification this morning that her prescription coverage for seniors is being cut off, effective March 1. At the same time, we read that due to cuts in provincial corporate tax, executive pay and bonuses are soaring to new ... Read More »
3 responsesPrejudice is folly
By Letter to the Editor on January 17th, 2020
I had several international visiting professors at university. Some of them were world-renowned scholars. A few were brave enough to teach in Japanese. Because I was young and stupid, I thought them less than what they were worth because of their newly acquired language, ignoring my French, which was like a three-year-old child. You are ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Regulation has important role in business
By Letter to the Editor on January 16th, 2020
Mr. Neudorf, our MLA in Lethbridge-East, has an overly simplistic concept about the economy. Like far too many UCP party supporters, he tells us unrestricted business promotion provides our “standard of living.” Perhaps Mr. Neudorf is confused between the creation of paper wealth and the production of a public good. Public goods serve humans. Paper ... Read More »
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