Letters to the Editor
Residents need to petition City about green cart program
By Letter to the Editor on November 25th, 2021
Editor: Apparently $4.75 million has been allocated from the provincial government to the City of Lethbridge to support “Municipal Infrastructure Improvements.” The City has earmarked this money for “purchasing solid waste carts and vehicles for the city’s green cart program.” Do residents realize what is going on here? In short, the City plans to implement ... Read More »
12 responsesDog owners need to clean up
By Letter to the Editor on November 24th, 2021
Editor: I have to call out my fellow dog owners; let me rephrase that, some of my fellow dog owners, the ones who take no responsibility for their pet. Now I don’t really care what your backyard looks like. I am guessing it is a place neither you nor your dog wants to spend much ... Read More »
4 responsesNeudorf needs to rethink his stance on vaccines
By Letter to the Editor on November 19th, 2021
You recently ran a column by Lethbridge East MLA Nathan Neudorf who holds the opinion that an individual’s right to “security of the person” extends to the “right” to refuse to be vaccinated. As we have recently celebrated our 102nd Remembrance Day, perhaps a little history might be in order: By 1918, 40 million people ... Read More »
17 responsesVaccines have saved millions of lives from diseases
By Letter to the Editor on November 19th, 2021
Editor: After reading Lynn Harrington’s letter re: vaccines, I must respond. Millions of lives have been saved from vaccines for polio, smallpox, mumps, measles, whooping cough, and rubella. All of these have been almost eradicated from our planet. I grew up in the 1950s in southern Alberta during the polio scare. Every school child in ... Read More »
8 responsesFilm on addictions a must-see here
By Letter to the Editor on November 19th, 2021
Editor; A must see for all southern Albertans is the film, “Kimmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy,” directed by Elle-Maia Tailfeathers and filmed on Kaianai First Nations. The stories, narration and filming presents the realities of substance-use and the effects on individuals, families, communities and those providing frontline support. Maia Is a shining star in the ... Read More »
18 responsesNeudorf defence of anti-vaxxers unacceptable
By Letter to the Editor on November 17th, 2021
Editor: In his Nov. 12 column, UCP Lethbridge-East MLA Nathan Neudorf shamelessly invoked the memory of our country’s war dead as a launching pad for defending anti-vaxxers’ supposed right to inflict risk of illness and death on our community. I find it beyond the pale to hook an opinion apologizing for the irresponsibility and selfish ... Read More »
27 responseszOverseas burials showed soldiers were equal
By Letter to the Editor on November 17th, 2021
Editor: On Nov. 13, an article was printed in the Herald regarding a family seeking closure for an Indigenous soldier who lost his life during the First World War. In the article the family expressed that they wished to bring the body of their ancestor home to be buried with family but that they were ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Unused space could be used as a medical clinic
By Letter to the Editor on November 17th, 2021
Editor: There has been a veritable exodus of family doctors from Lethbridge in recent weeks. A branch of one of Lethbridge’s oldest and largest clinics has closed. As a consequence of these events, a very large number of citizens are left with no primary care. By some estimates, between one-fifth and one-quarter of the population is ... Read More »
2 responsesThe time has come to let the dairy industry die
By Letter to the Editor on November 17th, 2021
Editor: Re: It’s time to reform the Canadian Dairy Commission (Nov. 12, 2021) I heartily agree with this writer (Sylvain Charleboix) that the dairy industry and commission needs reform. He fails to mention other reasonable alternatives though. We could let the dairy industry die a natural death. * The extra costs mentioned may not be ... Read More »
7 responsesLethbridge soup kitchen needs support
By Letter to the Editor on November 13th, 2021
Editor: Recently the Lethbridge soup kitchen has been struggling to raise funds to cover the needs of its operations. The City provides only nominal funding to the Soup Kitchen: giving the use of the building they are housed in rent-free for a total support of less than $40k annually. It is my hope that the ... Read More »
6 responsesEvery structure should harvest solar energy, even for emergencies
By Letter to the Editor on November 13th, 2021
Editor: Â Re: COP26’s shortcomings, etcetera. As individual consumers, far too many of us still recklessly behave as though throwing non-biodegradable garbage down a dark chute, or pollutants flushed down toilet/sink drainage pipes or emitted out of elevated exhaust pipes or spewed from sky-high jet engines and very tall smoke stacks – even the largest toxic-contaminant ... Read More »
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