Letters to the Editor

If you don’t like being part of Canada, you’re welcome to leave

By Lethbridge Herald on May 9th, 2025

Editor, Danielle Smith has lowered the threshold for referendums in Alberta. I believe you should read Jean Chretien’s book “Straight from the Heart.” He concludes his book by stating, “I feel strongly that we did not build our institutions, our traditions, our history, our national pride, in short this great country Canada, to become the ... Read More »

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Premier should focus on what Albertans’ needs, not UCP wants

By Lethbridge Herald on May 9th, 2025

Editor, I have been talking with fellow citizens, and we are concerned about how the Premier is leading Alberta. First, she destroyed the Health Care system by authorizing unprofessional doctors; now she wants to separate the province from the country. She has her war against the Liberals, but she must understand that Alberta belongs to ... Read More »

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Premier Smith’s comments either ignorant or dishonest

By Lethbridge Herald on May 9th, 2025

Editor, Congratulations to Danielle Smith for single-handedly embarrassing the entire province of Alberta in just one 20-minute speech. It’s actually quite impressive how much misinformation, nationalistic pandering, and historical revisionism she managed to cram into such a short timeframe. Those 20 minutes were not just misleading they were an insult to the intelligence of anyone ... Read More »

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Anti-vaxxer crowd should be careful what they wish for

By Lethbridge Herald on May 8th, 2025

Editor, Along with many others, I remember the Convoy shutdowns when trucks with giant Canadian flags sticking out the backs of their boxes roared en masse up and down University Drive and Scenic Drive, shutting down various streets and roads. They were protesting vaccine requirements. Meanwhile, every year millions of people in third world countries die ... Read More »

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Premier is off-base on net zero claims

By Lethbridge Herald on May 8th, 2025

Editor, Premier Danielle Smith says that the federal net zero regulations on electricity production set a carbon emissions limit that is completely unattainable, and would make Alberta’s electricity system more expensive and “more than 100 times less reliable.” (Lethbridge Herald, May 3) Nothing could be further from the truth. The Pembina Institute, a respected environmental ... Read More »

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We saw the essence of Poilievre in this election

By Lethbridge Herald on May 7th, 2025

Editor, Re “One moment captured Poilievre’s fatal weakness” (May 1, 2020): I agree with Dan O’Donnell’s assessment that Poilievre’s apple-munching interview in which he behaved rudely and dismissively toward a reporter was a defining moment. When I saw the news report I immediately thought if Poilievre sticks with that behaviour and approach, it wouldn’t bode ... Read More »

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Congratulations and best of luck to MP Rachael Thomas

By Lethbridge Herald on May 6th, 2025

Editor, As a long-term and permanent resident of our Lethbridge community, I write this Letter to the Editor of The Lethbridge Herald to congratulate Mrs. Rachael Thomas, our Member of Parliament, for Lethbridge, Alberta, on her recent electoral victory. I first met Ms. Harder (unmarried at the time) when she sought the leadership of the ... Read More »

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Re-invention of NDP will affect government for years to come

By Lethbridge Herald on May 2nd, 2025

Editor, This was the election of change for a number of reasons. The NDP collapsed, yet through a stroke of luck ended up holding the balance of power. The Bloc disavowed support for Canada as a country in the face of Trump’s threats. The Greens completed their retreat from Canadian politics, although Elizabeth May continues ... Read More »

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Protesting over the Eastern Slopes is not ‘eco-terrorism’

By Lethbridge Herald on April 30th, 2025

Editor, I am a regular participant, along with several other local constituents who peacefully protest at the lights in Claresholm. We are against the destruction of our Rocky Mountains shouldered by the Eastern Slopes, Alberta’s primary water shed. A continual battle has waged between the government elected to serve all citizens, and the majority of ... Read More »

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It’s clear the UCP doesn’t have the best interests of Albertans at heart

By Lethbridge Herald on April 25th, 2025

Editor, In Lethbridge-East MLA Nathan Neudorf’s April 15 Herald column, he tries to blame a decade-old NDP government for the rising transmission costs on your power bill. If this sounds absurd, let me assure you: it is. Mr. Neudorf claims that the need for new transmission lines was caused by the NDP’s “coal phase-out and ... Read More »

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Mining fears addressed by science, research

By Lethbridge Herald on April 22nd, 2025

Editor, To have a complaint is to have a purpose. Many individuals in our society crave for meaning and purpose in an otherwise boring and meaningless existence. Our society is saturated with secular humanist rhetoric centred on the establishment of a group movement such as an environmental movement advocating for a Utopian future which ignores ... Read More »

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