Letters to the Editor
Budget cut to the university could be a way to punish the NDP
By Lethbridge Herald on March 5th, 2022
Editor: The UCP brought in a balanced budget due to higher than expected oil and gas revenues. But instead of maintaining funding for Lethbridge College and the University of Lethbridge, they cut the U of L budget by 5.1 per cent. There is absolutely no good reason to do this. A motive could be found ... Read More »
19 responsesCanadians deserve better end-of-life care than we have now
By Lethbridge Herald on March 5th, 2022
Editor: As information was brought forward by the media of the treatment of Canada’s Indigenous children at the residential schools, Canadians were horrified to learn that such a thing could happen in a country like ours. We non-Indigenous people in the modern age were not aware and we all agree that truth and reconciliation must ... Read More »
1 responsePutin solely responsible for the death and destruction in Ukraine
By Lethbridge Herald on March 4th, 2022
Editor: I do not have strong enough words to condemn Putin’s unprovoked, brutal act of war against Ukraine, a sovereign nation in contravention of UN charter and international law protecting a nation’s right to independence. I do not believe that the Russian people support this invasion: Putin is solely to be held responsible for this ... Read More »
34 responsesU of L students deserve to be educated for the tuition they have paid
By Lethbridge Herald on March 4th, 2022
I understand why the University of Lethbridge teachers are on strike, but here’s my question as a parent from one of their students: my son paid a heavy tuition fee to attend U of L and now because of the strike he is going to be one semester behind on graduating. I would like to ... Read More »
5 responsesGrowing climate alarmism is ignoring science and data
By Lethbridge Herald on March 4th, 2022
Editor: Early in his latest presidential campaign, Joe Biden exuberantly proclaimed “I choose truth over facts”. Though humorous at the time, these five words actually exposed the core of the Left’s playbook. For example, in promoting most of their virtuous pet projects such as anti-racism, climate change alarmism and its co-dependent renewable energy industry, let’s ... Read More »
41 responsesPutin has the same principles now as he did in the KGB
By Lethbridge Herald on March 4th, 2022
Editor: For the past month we have been reading in the newspapers and hearing the news on TV that Russia has over 150,000 troops and numerous tanks ready to invade Ukraine at their border by the city Kharkiv. Furthermore, the war between Russia and Ukraine has been ongoing for over a week. President Vladimir Putin ... Read More »
1 responseULFA deserves support out of respect and fairness
By Lethbridge Herald on March 2nd, 2022
Editor: It’s 4 a.m. and I can’t sleep. Curious about public opinion on the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association (ULFA) strike (92 per cent ‘yes’ vote), I read the comments on a number of related news articles. While there is strong solidarity amongst faculty and students, it is disheartening to read public comments suggesting faculty ... Read More »
1 responseCommunity needs to fight for the university again
By Lethbridge Herald on February 26th, 2022
Editor: One of my favourite stories about the University of Lethbridge is related to its origins. This city fought to have its own university and it fought for that university’s autonomy. That fight culminated in a Freedom and Autonomy march held in May of 1968 in downtown Lethbridge. In the more than 50 years that ... Read More »
26 responsesLife in Canada will go on after the blockades, protests and arrests
By Lethbridge Herald on February 26th, 2022
Editor: Oh dear, what a performance! I am referring to the weekend’s Parliamentary antics debating and predictably passing the Emergencies Act. Meanwhile, after a substantial delay, the combined police forces of Ottawa, the OPP, the RCMP and detachments from Ontario, Quebec and across the country proceeded to shut down and remove the illegal occupation of ... Read More »
32 responsesSowing dissension in post-secondary realm may be UCP goal
By Lethbridge Herald on February 25th, 2022
Editor: The recent 20 per cent cut to the U of L’s budget is not the first of that magnitude. In 1994, Ralph Klein imposed a 20 per cent cut to operating budgets of all government departments including Advanced Education which included all post-secondaries. In addition, he brought in a five per cent rollback in ... Read More »
6 responsesLumping an entire political group together is unfair
By Lethbridge Herald on February 25th, 2022
Editor: I am writing this letter as a reply to Tom Moffat’s Feb. 10 letter titled, “Conservatives are creating a bizarre world.” Tom makes a number of false claims and uses a number of logical fallacies, so much so that I would argue his letter is truly “bizarre.” In his letter, Tom casts a large ... Read More »
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