Letters to the Editor
Alberta gov’t actions targeting the weakest groups
By Letter to the Editor on January 30th, 2020
We talk about what we are doing to help the homeless but this provincial government is putting them there. Way to go. Kenney has lots of money and he will get more by doing what he is doing or why would he be attacking the people who need his help? The weakest groups are our ... Read More »
14 responsesCancelling benefit will tick off a lot of seniors
By Letter to the Editor on January 30th, 2020
The provincial government has just sent out letters telling 46,000 people they’re losing spousal coverage for prescription drugs under the Seniors Drug Benefit Program as of the end of next month. Keeping in mind that the UCP lead, in last spring’s elections, was on the order of 100,000 voters, that’s pretty good chunk of the ... Read More »
10 responsesAbusing the people gov’t is elected to serve
By Letter to the Editor on January 30th, 2020
Has anybody figured out that by the second year of the War Room, it will be the people on AISH paying for 100 per cent of it? This is only possible because the UCP deindexed AISH. That is only the second year of deindexation. How much will the third and fourth years be costing the ... Read More »
5 responsesMLA doing what he was elected to do
By Letter to the Editor on January 29th, 2020
Re: Jan. 23 Letter to the Editor from Maria Fitzpatrick, “Lobbying on City’s behalf is the MLA’s job.” Maria starts her letter by saying, “I read Tim Kalinowski’s article in The Herald on Jan. 17 with utter dismay sadness and yes, some anger.” She goes on to say that the City should not have to ... Read More »
1 responseSCS is staffed by health-care professionals
By Letter to the Editor on January 29th, 2020
On Jan. 23, My Lethbridge Now published the following comment by Lethbridge City Councillor Blaine Hyggen >in regards to the Supervised Consumption Services site: “Hyggen would like the local Supervised Consumption Site looked at by Alberta Health Services, saying he feels that is the way it should be run. ‘That’s the way I believe would ... Read More »
6 responsesCanada 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!Policing and SCS alone won’t solve drug crisis
By Letter to the Editor on January 28th, 2020
Prior to Christmas I spent six weeks volunteering one day a week at the supervised consumption site with an elder from the Piikani Nation. Like many of us, I wish the supervised consumption site was not there, but it is, and it is needed. There is so much more to ARCHES than we see at ... 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 »
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