Letters to the Editor
Both sides have to engage to find a way of ending the trucker blockade
By Lethbridge Herald on February 11th, 2022
Editor: Here’s some advice from Eckhart Tolle. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy.” This will miraculously change your whole life.” Politicians, try implementing this advice; accept the blockade as if you had ... Read More »
8 responsesThe greatest freedom of all is simply the ability to live on this earth
By Lethbridge Herald on February 11th, 2022
Editor: I am writing to everyone but especially those who are outright now in a protest, blockade, rally, demonstration or a strike or are planning to join one. I am asking all of you to do one time thing – tonight at 9 p.m. turn off your vehicle, lights, radios TVs, phones and computers and ... Read More »
3 responsesBad attitudes and behaviours make bad situations worse
By Lethbridge Herald on February 11th, 2022
Editor: As I reflect on the events of the past two years, and in particular the past two weeks, I am compelled to share concerns about the path that we as a community and a “civil society” appear to be stumbling along in a halting and uncertain manner, unclear about whether we are forging ahead ... Read More »
2 responsesCity needs to address light pollution
By Lethbridge Herald on February 10th, 2022
Editor: If someone left the light on in your bedroom and you couldn’t turn it off, would you get a healthy sleep? If someone shined a light through your bedroom window at 2 a.m. would that be OK? Presently you have no recourse against this from happening. And we all need a darkened space for ... Read More »
7 responsesThe conservatives are creating a bizarre world
By Lethbridge Herald on February 10th, 2022
Editor: Conservatives in Canada are blatantly anti-health. From supporting illegal insurrections demanding the end of public health practices, to passing laws banning people from using public health measures, how did we reach a point where Canadian conservatives actually have public policies calling for an end to health? When did that become an acceptable platform for ... Read More »
12 responsesThere needs to be a better way to avoid strikes at universities
By Lethbridge Herald on February 10th, 2022
Editor: Faculty at Mount Royal University and the University of Lethbridge may soon be on strike. The main cause of the strikes is money. The dancers change, but the dance remains the same. The government slashes funding but expects the post-secondary institutions to maintain the quality and quantity of education. Since more than 80 per ... Read More »
4 responsesTactic of agitators is to weaken us through mob rule
By Lethbridge Herald on February 10th, 2022
Editor: Remember the Alamo, and the mythic horse of Troy? Beware the turncoat who yells “freedom” loudest, and who will drown the rest of us like a sack of kittens. I am a vet, and don’t run with the pack who use American Confederate and Nazi flags as standards while flying our Maple Leaf upside ... Read More »
12 responsesTruckers protest has been hijacked by right-wing agitators
By Lethbridge Herald on February 9th, 2022
Editor: Because we live in a free and democratic country, protests are tolerated without fear of serious retribution and persecution. Yet, signage and actions at the Ottawa event would suggest that some at least believe otherwise and have hijacked a genuine protest from unvaccinated truckers. How else to explain such statements suggesting that this would ... Read More »
31 responsesBeeber applauded for column, Thomas’ rejected
By Lethbridge Herald on February 9th, 2022
Editor: I applaud Al Beeber for his weekly column in the Lethbridge Herald Feb. 5, Page A9, and reject our M.P. Rachael Thomas’s defence of “Freedom Convoy” on Page A6. People who oppose mandatory masking and vaccination as the violation of basic human rights need to be reminded that the flip side of freedom is ... Read More »
18 responsesWhy do feel helpless in face of convoys?
By Lethbridge Herald on February 9th, 2022
Editor: Why is it that we, either as policemen or general public, appear helpless in the face of the so-called “Freedom Convoys” now entrenched in many of our cities or highways? Is it the power of their message? Is it the size of their group? Actually, it is the perceived weaponry that frightens us. We ... Read More »
8 responsesRachael Thomas needs to take a walk through an ICU ward
By Lethbridge Herald on February 9th, 2022
Editor: In her recent opinion piece, Rachael Thomas notes that it was “an honour and a joy to walk among and converse with those who have gathered on Parliament Hill from all corners of our country.” Perhaps Ms. Thomas is unaware that for more than two years now, the world has been fighting a war ... Read More »
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