November 7th, 2024

Letters to the Editor

Why no SCS on the reserve to help addicts?

By Letter to the Editor on June 19th, 2021

Editor: The CMO for the Blood Reserve has confirmed what most Lethbridge residents have known for sometime: she stated in the local news that the reason that the Blood reserve experienced 91 deaths last year is because the SCS in Lethbridge closed. Personally I do not believe that, unless of course the CMO is saying ... Read More »

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Hundreds of attacks go unreported

By Letter to the Editor on June 19th, 2021

Editor: For every anti-Muslim attack that gains national coverage, there are hundreds of lesser ones that go unreported. According to Stats Canada, there was a sharp increase (by 253 per cent) in anti-Muslim hate-crimes from 2012 to 2015. There was another jump in 2019. The experience of prejudice by Albertan Muslims is very real, whether ... Read More »

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Repealing mask bylaw would be unwise

By Letter to the Editor on June 18th, 2021

Editor: The proposal that the City of Lethbridge, or any other municipality for that matter, should repeal its temporary mask bylaw simply because the province reaches its defined vaccination threshold and repeals its masking requirement, would be a bad public policy decision. Such a decision must not take place in a geographically uniformed vacuum; it ... Read More »

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City mask bylaw is a powerful tool

By Letter to the Editor on June 18th, 2021

Editor: Councillor Hyggen has once again attempted to quash the city’s mask bylaw. His previous argument alongside two other councillors, was that a provincial wide mask mandate negated the usefulness of a local mandate. With the provincial government poised to lift the mask bylaw in early July, Hyggen’s argument is now moot. He cites low ... Read More »

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Songwriters want an apology from Harder

By Letter to the Editor on June 17th, 2021

Editor: On June 9, The Lethbridge Herald published remarks by Lethbridge MP and Official Opposition Critic for Digital Government, Rachael Harder. Ms. Harder’s comments have rightly received widespread condemnation from the Canadian creator community. The Songwriters Association of Canada shares this outrage and demands that Ms. Harder publicly apologize in the House of Commons and ... Read More »

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LTC seems intent on unseating an elected government

By Letter to the Editor on June 17th, 2021

Editor: We keep seeing letters from the “Lethbridge Transparency Council” which seems to be a right-wing political action group intent on unseating what they obviously perceive to be an overly progressive or left-wing municipal council. Firstly, a “council” is defined as “an advisory, deliberative, or administrative body of people formally constituted,” or “the elected administrative ... Read More »

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West Lethbridge priorities need to be assessed

By Letter to the Editor on June 17th, 2021

Editor: When we moved to Lethbridge in 1967, there was a common community understanding that the third bridge land reserve was in the City master plan just north of Tudor Estates. Mark Lenchucka’s letter clearly shows the City’s priority planning in the Municipal Development Plan (MDP) with single occupancy automobile being the last priority. And, ... Read More »

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A thank you would be nice for customers

By Letter to the Editor on June 12th, 2021

Editor: This is an open letter to all of the owners, managers, and supervisors, of 99 per cent of the businesses in this city. Why is it, that when I come into your business, and spend my hard-earned money, that I don’t get a thank you from, you, the owner, or your employee?? Instead, I ... Read More »

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Harder’s contempt for artists unacceptable

By Letter to the Editor on June 12th, 2021

Editor: Last Friday, Conservative MP Rachael Harder made extremely derogatory comments about Canadian and Quebec artists in these pages. She made similar comments on May 31 during a working session of the Standing Committee on Heritage on Bill C-10. According to Ms. Harder, the arts fund would only go to “a very niche group of ... Read More »

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Failure not an option in climate battle

By Letter to the Editor on June 12th, 2021

Editor: Still reeling from the ravages of the First World War, the 1929 financial crash, and the Great Depression, the Canadian economy of 1939 was in the ditch: industry on life support, agriculture impoverished, shipbuilding comatose, unemployment at a runaway 17 per cent, national treasury empty, military feeble, political system futile. Yet by the Second ... Read More »

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Lethbridge needs to be considered relative to similar sized cities

By Letter to the Editor on June 12th, 2021

Editor: There has been much controversy about the need for a performing arts centre in Lethbridge. Most recently, the focus has been on the fact that we are not Calgary, so why would we try to emulate Calgary? We are a city of almost 100,000 and the Yates’ seating is 474. Perhaps it would be ... Read More »

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