Letters to the Editor
Elected officials and candidates should be prepared to be held to a higher standard
By Letter to the Editor on June 30th, 2021
Editor: We may have some elections coming up in the remainder of 2021. Alberta has municipal elections in the fall and a federal election may be up coming for the country. While election fatigue is a real issue which may just compound our existing COVID-19 fatigue, some believe the federal election may be timed while ... Read More »
1 responseTime to listen
By Letter to the Editor on June 30th, 2021
Editor: The government is finally letting up on restrictions and putting our province back to normal again. Certain members of city council have decided that they have more wisdom than the health authority! You have no right imposing your ideas about COVID over the health authority that has overseen this mess from the start. If ... Read More »
9 responsesExplanation needed on green bins
By Letter to the Editor on June 25th, 2021
Editor: It appears the city council has now burdened us with another bin (green). Could you have a member of the city council outline for us receiving them, how they are to be used, specifically how what’s being put in the bins and how they are to be handled. My thinking is we may have ... Read More »
25 responsesBudget decisions the reason doctors and other healthcare workers leaving Alberta
By Letter to the Editor on June 25th, 2021
Editor: Minister of Alberta Health Tyler Shandro must be living in a cloud if, as his recent letter to the editor Wednesday 23 June suggests, he believes that COVID circumstances are the central cause of a destabilized healthcare workforce in our Province. It is evident to the majority of Albertans that the UCP’s budget decisions ... Read More »
10 responsesHarder’s vote denies people the right to live their own identity
By Letter to the Editor on June 25th, 2021
Editor: I’m finding it difficult to believe that Rachael Harder, Conservative MP for Lethbridge, has voted against the federal bill to ban conversion therapy. In doing so, she aligned herself with those who believe that sexual orientation is a choice and can be changed, or that it is evil and must be driven out. Instead, ... Read More »
16 responsesCanada Day should be celebrated
By Letter to the Editor on June 24th, 2021
Editor: These days it is difficult to not hear via the media about the transgressions committed against the Indigenous people, in particular the Indigenous children. Residential schools began in 1883 up until the 1970’s and 80’s when the schools began closing down or changing to local control. The last residential school closed in the 1990’s. ... Read More »
6 responsesA clear mind and clear conscience are peace
By Letter to the Editor on June 24th, 2021
Editor: The shortest day of the year is December 21. The Blackfoot believe this day is the beginning to “back to home day” which is the longest day of the year, June 21, the summer solstice. The winter we call beginning of home day in translating from Blackfoot to English is “the shortest day of ... Read More »
2 responsesCOVID-19 presents an opportunity to eliminate low-value health care in Canada
By Letter to the Editor on June 24th, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched health care systems across Canada beyond capacity. Surges of COVID-19 have strained available beds, exhausted health care workers and resources. To cope with these surges, some regional and provincial health systems delayed all non-essential procedures, tests and surgeries. Canadians’ health-seeking behaviours have changed over the past year with steep drops ... Read More »
1 responseWe won’t learn from history if we destroy it
By Letter to the Editor on June 23rd, 2021
Editor: Thank you for this thoughtful appropriately timed editorial article. I agree. I can understand why residents would rather not have a statue in their community when the actions of the subject don’t coincide with values that we hold dear with hindsight. I believe these statues should be carefully removed without paint and disfigurement, and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Review process in Alberta needs to be revised
By Letter to the Editor on June 23rd, 2021
Editor: The Grassy Mountain Joint (federal/provincial) Review Panel, in response to a wealth of input from from Albertans and Canada’s multidisciplinary science community, has made a decision. It rejected all the applications Benga Mining made for its Grassy Mountain Coal Project, determining the proposed project’s “… significant adverse environmental effects on surface water quality and ... Read More »
2 responsesRecruiting new physicians a priority in Alberta
By Letter to the Editor on June 23rd, 2021
Editor: Recently, media reports have covered staffing challenges in Fairview, Boyle, St. Paul, Elk Point, Rocky Mountain House, and Westlock. Staffing challenges are not new to rural Albertans, who are familiar with the longstanding challenge of recruiting doctors to their communities. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has hit us hard. Doctors are not immune to the virus and ... Read More »
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