Letters to the Editor
Another supervised consumption site would be a catastrophe
By Lethbridge Herald on May 5th, 2023
Editor: In 2017, with the support and encouragement of our federal Liberal government, our elected NDP government led by Rachel Notley and supported by Lethbridge’s two NDP MLAs Marie and Shannon, opened the Supervised Consumption Site (SCS). At the time it became the busiest drug consumption site in North America. A majority of city council ... Read More »
24 responsesLong wait for lab appointment makes for an election choice
By Lethbridge Herald on May 3rd, 2023
Editor: Recently, my nurse practitioner ( I am one of about 40,000 Lethbridge citizens without a doctor) gave me a requisition for a routine blood test at one of our local medical labs. When I asked which lab I should go to, I was told here are only two in Lethbridge! I was also given ... Read More »
18 responsesAlberta electorate getting a chance to give itself a headache
By Lethbridge Herald on April 29th, 2023
Editor: I have long had an empirical turn of mind and therefore firmly believe in evidence-based analysis. It is a fool’s game to plunge in without having first tested the proverbial waters. Likewise it is futile to claim knowledge without some basis of tested fact. You may have heard, for instance, that it hurts to ... Read More »
14 responsesMulti-modal transportation use should be encouraged
By Lethbridge Herald on April 29th, 2023
Editor: I write once again to respond to a bad take published in your Commentary section regarding Mr. Scott Harvey’s letter published April 14 “Adding parking and bike lanes will be a waste of money.” Mr. Harvey states that in his 39 years of driving in Lethbridge, he has never seen such poor states of ... Read More »
8 responsesJournalists need to provide balanced coverage
By Lethbridge Herald on April 27th, 2023
Editor: You can’t make these things up and if it wasn’t so serious it would be funny. The Herald, front page news: “Premier limits questions with election looming.” Then all the “talking heads” go on to say how terrible this is. I have watched hundreds of political press conferences and all politicians limit the questions ... Read More »
31 responsesMore multi-coloured bins would solve Lethbridge waste problems
By Lethbridge Herald on April 21st, 2023
Editor: So our Town Fathers have decreed that we will now have a third bin to collect our throw-away stuff. We put our garbage into the black bin, our recyclable stuff into the blue bin, and our compostable stuff into the colourful green bin. And all this will save money at pickup time? But wait, ... Read More »
28 responsesTalk at the university was a refreshing experience
By Lethbridge Herald on April 21st, 2023
Editor: On April 6, I attended a talk given by Berke Vom Ricketti at the U of L with the title of “The temporal coherence properties of sunlight”. I like learning, but my lack of background information left me struggling with what was delivered. Berke completed his Masters degree in Physics (MPhys) from Herio-Watt University, ... Read More »
2 responsesKindness of strangers who found injured dog appreciated
By Lethbridge Herald on April 20th, 2023
Editor: I would like to reach out to the three people who found it in their hearts to pick up the wounded dog on Highway 3 April 26, at 7:15 a.m. As I met you on the driveway, I failed to get your names to thank you properly. Having a dog pass away in your ... Read More »
1 responseDrug addictions a health crisis, not a criminal matter
By Lethbridge Herald on April 18th, 2023
Editor: I believe that we have to look into the current drug addiction crisis more deeply than as a mere law and order issue. Neither is it a problem of homelessness nor of a certain racial group. Without recognizing those deeper and wider issues, the problem will never go away. Remember during 1920’s the U.S. ... Read More »
19 responsesPrivate health care will crush some under a load of debt
By Lethbridge Herald on April 15th, 2023
Editor: I suspect not too many of your readers will have run across the following bit of news out of the States. The members of Trinity Moravian Church in Winston Salem, North Carolina purchased nearly $3.3 million of local residents’ medical debt for just $15,048. Then, they held a debt jubilee ceremony and burned up ... Read More »
20 responsesThe provincial election can’t come soon enough for one voter
By Lethbridge Herald on April 15th, 2023
Editor: On January 2, 2021 Donald Trump made the infamous call to State of Georgia Secretary of State Mr. Raffensperger to find him some votes and he explained that there was nothing wrong with the call, in fact according to Trump it was a “perfect call.” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith talks to a preacher by ... Read More »
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