Letters to the Editor
Saving on energy is possible
By Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2025
Editor, Re: Home energy use in 2024 Lashia and I live in a 70-year-old 1,000-square-foot bungalow without exterior updates. We use natural gas to heat our water and home; electricity for the stove. A Lennox high efficiency furnace replaced the defective one in 2023 and a gas fireplace was installed in February 2024. We lower ... Read More »
2 responsesSurgery wait time is far too long
By Lethbridge Herald on March 6th, 2025
Editor, My husband has been waiting more than two years for hip surgery. He is now using a walker and is not able to do anything he used to be able to do. We were told his surgery would be between October and December 2024. In December we were told it would be in January ... Read More »
6 responsesCutting taxes should be city’s top priority
By Lethbridge Herald on March 5th, 2025
Editor, Our house assessment went up $53,000 in just two years with no additions. Get real, Lethbridge, you money grubbing shysters! The house is decaying under my feet and needs new furnace/air conditioner. The roof has so many years on it that insurance gives you nothing for hail damage. Neighbouring houses have turned into multi ... Read More »
13 responsesThanks to council for recognizing coal risk
By Lethbridge Herald on March 5th, 2025
Editor, Kudos to Lethbridge City Council for unanimously reconfirming its commitment to protecting our water. The City of Lethbridge has joined a number of other communities in the region to express concerns about water quality being adversely affected by the impacts of coal mining in the headwaters of the eastern slopes. Council’s resolution recognized the ... Read More »
6 responsesCheap goods will always cost people more in the long run
By Lethbridge Herald on March 4th, 2025
Editor, There are ten houses on the south side of our street. Eight of them have a two-car garage. Only two of them are used for cars. The rest are storage space for tools but mostly for junk that eventually end up in landfill site People have too many clothes which are still in good condition but ... Read More »
1 responseSmith needs a lesson on the Constitution
By Lethbridge Herald on March 4th, 2025
Editor, Our premier appears to be conceptually challenged when it comes to the location of sovereignty in Canada (as recent letters by the Crisfields and Peter Haney have made clear). Because the Constitution of 1982 and the British North America Act of 1867 before it were so laden with language distributing legislative powers and authority ... Read More »
20 responsesTrump told Americans what he would do before the election
By Lethbridge Herald on March 4th, 2025
Editor, Americans are accusing President Trump of betrayal when they only have themselves to blame. Millions of misguided Americans believed that Trump, despite all the warnings, would bring down prices and create good jobs. Were Americans really listening? Trump told them what he would do, he told them what he was like, yet millions of ... Read More »
6 responsesAll of us failed Domenic Ricakby
By Lethbridge Herald on February 28th, 2025
Editor, On Dec. 26, 2024, the day after Christmas, Domenic Rickaby, a 13-year-old child, was found dead in our City of Lethbridge. As more details emerge, it appears he was denied life saving measures by his birth mother, Blanche Isobel Irene Fick, who has been charged with criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide ... Read More »
3 responsesAnti-science UCP is a danger to Albertans
By Lethbridge Herald on February 28th, 2025
Editor, We have a UCP government which is anti-science, anti-vaccine, and pro-open pit coal mining – a deadly combination. The UCP panders to its base as opposed to doing what is best for all Albertans. The UCP should be taking actions supported by scientists and engineers, by medical doctors and other health care professionals. But ... Read More »
36 responsesCUPE is fighting on behalf of Alberta’s students
By Lethbridge Herald on February 27th, 2025
Editor, Why are CUPE education sector workers on strike? Public education is at stake. This is why so many Albertans are working together to take a stand. Alberta’s public education system has the lowest per student funding in the country (public includes Catholic and Francophone school boards). Investments in public education have been systemically lowered over ... Read More »
1 responseSmith equates Alberta with Texas
By Lethbridge Herald on February 26th, 2025
Editor, Quoting from Alberta Hansard’s record of Dec. 7, 2022, Premier Smith said, in part, “I don’t know why it is they felt that they needed to suck up to Ottawa. It’s not like Ottawa is a national government. The way our country works is that we are a federation of sovereign, independent jurisdictions. They ... Read More »
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