Letters to the Editor
MLA engaging in fear-mongering?
By Lethbridge Herald on October 26th, 2018
MLA Shannon Phillips’ comments in the Lethbridge Herald (Oct. 17, “UCP cuts dire for teachers, says Phillips”) amount to nothing more than fear-mongering. She has no firm information to back this up! She claims that 151 teaching positions can be lost over the next four years. It is a well-known practice of political parties who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Moving problem around isn’t a solution
By Lethbridge Herald on September 15th, 2018
Two news features appearing in the Sept. 11 Herald proved an exercise in contradiction. On the front page, Police Chief Davis, in the article “Police chief recommends ‘The Watch’ program to help cope with opioid crisis,” states in that piece, “We can staff appropriately to be constantly displacing drug users and crime,” and further along ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The pitfalls of overproducing
By Lethbridge Herald on August 29th, 2018
Business dictates continuous “growth.” Growth of what? We overproduce everything. Overproducing creates slowdowns, layoffs, financial crunches. Then conservatives demand more subsidies and tax relief so business can overproduce atmospheric gases to replace the oxygen people want to breathe. Conservatives say breathe less for business. Progressives insist we must have more of everything so we aren’t ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Making excuses for poor performance
By Lethbridge Herald on August 2nd, 2018
I am still amazed how socialists continue to make excuses for the performance of the NDP government. Some commentators have made false assumptions; I am not a signed-up conservative, I hold no membership in any party, my only memberships being in the UAW and more recently the UFCW. I am foremost an Albertan who is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Assimilation or multi-culturalism?
By Lethbridge Herald on August 2nd, 2018
I have been thinking about the new influx of immigrants into Canada. A lot of folk tell me it is the duty of immigrants to become assimilated into the larger culture. This is apparently what they call multiculturalism. But, did everyone who came here, come here to assimilate? In 2012, the Universities of Delaware and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!We must overcome crisis of differing opinions
By Lethbridge Herald on July 29th, 2018
I am wondering how impartial The Herald can actually be in reporting on the opioid crisis? At the bottom of the front page of the Special Report section, the writers attempt to introduce the series of articles as being an objective presentation, without bias, of the crisis. I appreciate that they thought that, but their ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Proposed regulations will hurt condo owners
By Lethbridge Herald on July 29th, 2018
Why is it nothing has been in the media about Service Alberta’s release of their proposed condo governance “regulations” and the associated condo survey due July 31? Is it because they don’t want one in four Alberta homeowners realizing the many shortcomings and loopholes of their current and proposed condo legislation they want proclaimed into ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Intentional destruction of the United States?
By Lethbridge Herald on July 28th, 2018
The only way I can make any sense of Donald Trump and the American government is to assume that what is happening is by design. I don’t think anyone can be that stupid and still be able to tie his own shoes. Having said that, I asked myself what would be the simplest explanation for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Seniors minister a welcome addition
By Lethbridge Herald on July 28th, 2018
I would like to thank The Herald for the editorial in the July 19 Herald, “Cabinet adds voice for seniors.” On behalf of the Lethbridge Federal Liberal EDA, I congratulate your editors for writing a very positive and informative editorial. I was on the Seniors Policy Committee that researched and wrote the background paper supporting ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Previous Conservative governments caused Alberta’s woes
By Lethbridge Herald on July 28th, 2018
Rebuttal to Tom Burns’ letter, “Where does the blame belong?”, Lethbridge Herald, July 17. Tom should stop blaming Rachel Notley’s New Democrats (NDP) for Alberta’s problems. The truth is, Alberta was in trouble long before the NDP formed the government. Perhaps Tom has forgotten that it was the Conservatives, not the NDP, that left Alberta ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nobody is a write-off even in seemingly hopeless situations
By Lethbridge Herald on July 5th, 2018
Re: “Huge cost to ending needle program” (June 14 Lethbridge Herald) The head of ARCHES paints a bleak picture. The tone of the article certainly bears that out. ARCHES says that unless we continue to support the drug-use habits in a safe environment “we’d start stepping over dead bodies in the streets.” Regardless, they say ... Read More »
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