Letters to the Editor
Thinking beyond facts
By Letter to the Editor on February 28th, 2020
“No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot,” said Mark Twain. What troubles me is what’s called “Post-Truth” culture. Facts are called “fake news.” Scary scientific evidence is dismissed as “unbalanced.” “Guilty or innocent” is determined by partisan votes. After Japan was defeated in 1945, the United States Information Service sent agents to the ... Read More »
4 responsesWhere is the service?
By Letter to the Editor on February 27th, 2020
Everything is an industry these days – one of the fave economic catch-all phrases. They tell us the “service industry” is the next big thing. What do we mean by service? My father was an overqualified mechanical engineer. My family was lower middle class. Dad taught Cadillac mechanics. One of his businesses sold TVs and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!What we do now affects future for allof us
By Letter to the Editor on February 27th, 2020
Re: The recent letter to the editor comment, “The MLA for Lethbridge-East, Nathan Neudorf, is perfectly capable of taking citizens’ concerns to the government caucus, as he is a totally competent member of that body.” When I read this, I thought “LOL.” I am not a mean person, nor do I try to hurt people ... Read More »
25 responsesWe need to talk about who owns unceded land in B.C.
By Letter to the Editor on February 26th, 2020
The Wet’suwet’en dispute over the Coastal Gaslink pipeline has generated increasing amounts of heat, but little light. I thought a review of history might help. In 1763, the British king, George III, issued a royal proclamation requiring all colonies to negotiate land cessions with Indigenous peoples, rather than simply seizing land as they had been ... Read More »
6 responsesCounter questions regarding SCS issue
By Letter to the Editor on February 25th, 2020
This is a response to the letter “Some facts, questions about the SCS,” Feb. 14 Herald. Let’s deal with business expansion: Did you find how many were going to “expand” downtown because that’s the businesses that are being destroyed by this stupidity? Let’s deal with the 440 unique clients: First, they are not clients, they ... Read More »
17 responsesForget a UN seat, it’s the protests that require action
By Letter to the Editor on February 25th, 2020
Democracy is the rule of the majority. Never will we have 100 per cent approval. In British Columbia, a legally approved LNG project is being held hostage (illegally) by a few protesters. Shockingly, protesters being interviewed by a newscaster did not know what products are carried through the LNG pipeline. Oil or bitumen was their ... Read More »
4 responsesCleaning up the world’s biggest natural oil spill
By Letter to the Editor on February 24th, 2020
We are dealing with the biggest oil spill in the world, yet everybody is against cleaning it up. Why? It is dirty oil. The tarsands of the western provinces of Canada are the biggest natural oil spill in the world. Other than the Los Angeles Tar Pits, and a site here or there around the ... Read More »
4 responsesWill common sense prevail over climate hysteria?
By Lethbridge Herald on December 30th, 2019
The Herald published three Canadian Press articles on Dec. 18 emphasizing a need to act on the so-called “existential threat” to our planet posed by the “climate crisis.” Mia Rabson, one of the writers, asserted: “A decade ago, climate change was more academic than reality, but in recent years few Canadians haven’t been touched directly ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Obama’s support revived Liberal campaign
By Lethbridge Herald on November 22nd, 2019
In support of “Didn’t Obama mingle in Canada’s election?” I think he meant meddle! It was proven that Obama’s endorsement five days before the election had an immediate and huge upward effect on the polling of Justin Trudeau. Liberals were tanking and immediately after Obama’s endorsement, Obama’s comment was retweeted a few hundred thousand times, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trying to block movie is blocking free speech
By Lethbridge Herald on June 25th, 2019
Many pro-life groups fought hard to get the movie “Unplanned” to be shown in Canada, writing letters, petitions, phone calls to government MPs and distributors, etc. and finally success! The Movie Mill in Lethbridge said yes, and now a petition has been launched to pressure them into not showing it. There is no such thing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Migration is the engine of civilization
By Lethbridge Herald on June 22nd, 2019
In June 1979, I attended the UN conference in Geneva, Switzerland discussing the Vietnam refugee crisis. Canada was represented by Flora MacDonald, Secretary of State for External Affairs in Joe Clark’s Conservative government. She pledged that Canada would accept 100,000 of the so-called “Boat People.” Canada made me proud. Compared to the most recent offer ... Read More »
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