Letters to the Editor
Water management a key issue in municipal elections
By Letter to the Editor on October 9th, 2021
Editor: Candidates for election to municipal office in southern Alberta are well advised to consider the future of water use for the communities they represent and for the environment. A summer of rapidly melting glaciers, extreme heat, little to no rainfall, and low river flow resulted in water shortage advisories, declared states of agricultural emergency, ... Read More »
9 responsesOctober election may be city’s most important
By Letter to the Editor on October 9th, 2021
Editor: October 18 may be the most important election in the history of this city. That day residents determine whether they employ a municipal government who works for them, or if they continue to enslave themselves through runaway taxation and work for government! Administrators at every level are slowly eroding through debt-supported taxation, freedoms and ... Read More »
8 responsesWhat system is really better than our own?
By Letter to the Editor on October 9th, 2021
Editor: In response to the “Letter to the Editor” on Sept. 30 titled “Capitalist system is unfair and socially unjust” by Ramma Sawhney:Â What would she propose as an alternative? First of all we do not have a totally capitalist society system. If we did there wouldn’t be all of the handouts of money that ... Read More »
4 responsesAlberta’s education system needs support from Minister
By Letter to the Editor on October 9th, 2021
Editor: To the Honorable Adriana LaGrange, below is a letter to you, to the Alberta provincial government, education stakeholders and everyone whose life is touched by education: On “World Teacher Day” I beg you to take a minute and consider the voices of your teachers, and hear us when we say: our kids are not ... Read More »
1 responseDo your best to stay out of an intensive care nit
By Letter to the Editor on October 8th, 2021
Editor: I have just been released from Foothills hospital after major surgery. What a scary experience, with more patients than beds in ICUs. Two weeks ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with all signs pointing to serious heart attack. They stabilized me at Emergency here in Lethbridge. I was kept on ... Read More »
3 responsesIt’s time for Neudorf and the UCP to get back to work on crisis
By Letter to the Editor on October 8th, 2021
Editor: Everybody deserves a break, a holiday. But in times of crisis that sometimes has to give way to a greater good. In a COVID world, the government has invoked a clause in their collective agreement with nurses to allow them to direct “mandatory overtime or cancelling of pre-approved vacation time”. But what about the ... Read More »
3 responsesIt’s time to quit blaming addicts for the city’s problems
By Letter to the Editor on October 7th, 2021
Editor: The city of Lethbridge is in turmoil – the opioid crisis has taken its toll on many people, especially the addicts. Instead of being divided, I ask you to unite. We need a large support system. This is a big issue. Band aid solutions will not solve the problem. In fact, it just infects ... Read More »
11 responsesSenate can be a powerful tool for Alberta
By Letter to the Editor on October 7th, 2021
Editor: True and lasting reform may be a long way off still but we are taking steps in the right direction This year, I reached a point in my career and life where I knew I wanted to do more, for Alberta and all Canadians. And so I decided to channel decades of governance experience ... Read More »
2 responsesWe deserve better from our province
By Letter to the Editor on October 7th, 2021
Editor: Premier Jason Kenney recently stated that 80 per cent of Alberta’s population had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccination and also reiterated that he would not be increasing any further restrictions such as the “fire break” proposal recommended by several of Alberta’s top doctors. He further stated that he would not ... Read More »
2 responsesPremier needs to resign over COVID pandemic
By Letter to the Editor on October 7th, 2021
Editor: According to the Government of Canada’s COVID 19 Daily Epidemiology update: Over the last 7 days, Canada’s total COVID case count was 30,335. Over the last seven days, Alberta’s total COVID case count was 11,445. Canada’s population is about 39 million. Alberta’s population is about 4.5 milion. In plain language, we have about 10 per ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Facts the only cure for vaccine misinformation
By Letter to the Editor on October 6th, 2021
Editor: It is a stressful time in Alberta with the current COVID-19 pandemic. But there’s a secondary epidemic that needs to be addressed – an epidemic of misinformation that’s rapidly spreading through our social and digital media platforms. There has been a tidal wave of misinformation and the people responsible for it are causing confusion, ... Read More »
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