Letters to the Editor
Accountability needed for Covenant Health
By Letter to the Editor on July 9th, 2021
Editor: Should somebody else’s religion be the final determinant of the nature and quality of services you can receive from your publicly funded health care system in Alberta? Does your answer change if it was the Premier’s religious beliefs that limited your choice? Does any elected politician in Canada have the right to impose their ... Read More »
5 responsesMayor deserves thanks for grilling mine operators
By Letter to the Editor on July 9th, 2021
Editor: Thanks are in order to our mayor for the grilling he gave the coal mining fast talkers when they came to Lethbridge. They had believed that a little unsubstantiated reassurance would suffice to change Albertans’ negative regard for coal mines in our eastern mountain slopes. It seems Aussies suffer under the illusion that Canada ... Read More »
2 responsesCalgary vandals damaged plaque recalling internment
By Letter to the Editor on July 8th, 2021
Editor: Those who vandalized a Ukrainian Catholic church in Calgary also damaged a historical plaque recalling the victims of Canada’s first national internment operations of 1914-1920. Thousands of Ukrainians and other Europeans were unjustly branded as “enemy aliens” and many were forced to do heavy labour, including in the national parks at Banff and Jasper. ... Read More »
1 responseOrange shirts displayed the feelings of many at RMTC
By Letter to the Editor on July 8th, 2021
Editor: While attending the horse races at RMTC and celebrating Canada Day, it was with compassion by many due to the result of the recent residential school discoveries. The presence of orange T-shirts was clear evidence where the thoughts of many attendees were. It is with this thought Bob and I would like to recognize ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conservatives work for the rich in Canada
By Letter to the Editor on July 8th, 2021
Editor: Miss Harder has a fixation. It is reminiscent of teenagers who insist on rights and freedoms without accepting responsibilities. As our member of Parliament, we should expect a modicum of self-awareness, of maturity. What we have been shown is belligerence, lack of cooperation, deliberate obstruction for the work of legislation. Conservatives claim to want ... Read More »
16 responsesMask mandates sparked by fear, not science
By Letter to the Editor on July 7th, 2021
Editor: Re: Saturday, July 3, 2021, “Wearing a mask a choice to be respected” by the Lethbridge Herald Editorial Board In this editorial, you state: “Mandated masks have caused enormous conflict between those who believe in science and those who feel their freedoms were trounced upon by government.” It would be eminently useful to know ... Read More »
25 responsesNewspapers too important for us to lose
By Letter to the Editor on July 7th, 2021
Editor: I am worried about the future of newspapers. Does the new always has to kill the old? When you disembark a plane or a train, you are always asked to make sure you don’t leave anything important behind. However, every time you move forward in your life, you rarely think of what you leave ... Read More »
1 responseSunridge water quality a sad state of affairs
By Letter to the Editor on July 7th, 2021
Editor: The City of Lethbridge parks department recently advised citizens, in an item in this newspaper, to expect a lower level of parks maintenance due to a reduced number of staff. It is a worrisome development. In Sunridge, residents have sadly become used to a lower level of maintenance already and any further erosion is ... Read More »
2 responsesBy any method, it’s all genocide
By Letter to the Editor on July 3rd, 2021
Editor: Be it guns and swords to eliminate Armenians, or gas cambers to exterminate the Jews, or scimitars to eliminate Uzbekis in Iraq or brain washing prisons in China to “re-educate” Islamis, or residential schools to “assimilate” generations of aboriginal children in Canada, be it the body that is bludgeoned or the memory and mind ... Read More »
7 responsesRoger Prairie Chicken is the definition of a hero
By Letter to the Editor on July 3rd, 2021
Editor: The word “hero” today is bandied around as if it were popcorn at a movie theatre and frankly there’s few that catch my fancy. An exception popped up on page A2 of the June 24th edition of this paper in the text under the headline “Elder looking to lead movement for social political change ... Read More »
9 responsesPromises produce nothing
By Letter to the Editor on July 3rd, 2021
Editor: Answering the apologist for the oil and gas professional lobb, I suspect Mr. Brett Wilson spends more time in the marble halls of government sucking up subsidy dollars than he ever spent mucking around the mud in a drilling field. He certainly doesn\’t talk like any rig man I ever met. He says he ... Read More »
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