Letters to the Editor
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 »
2 responsesLight nuisance bylaw would be a win for all
By Letter to the Editor on June 12th, 2021
Editor: Spring and summer are seasons we most associate with birds, bees and the beauty of nature. The problem is we’re seeing far fewer of these and other creatures with each passing year. Driving species to decline or extinction is alarming not only because the beauty of nature is vanishing before our eyes but our ... Read More »
5 responsesHarder comments have cost her the respect of artists
By Letter to the Editor on June 12th, 2021
Editor: An open letter to the Honourable Rachael Harder, MP. Many of us in the arts community have shown tolerance to your wildly inaccurate objections to Bill C-10, and even been lightly amused by your confusion between the Charter of Rights and The Broadcast Act. However, your latest proclamations regarding Canadian artists, particularly in Quebec, ... Read More »
1 responseCensoring speech on social media unacceptable
By Letter to the Editor on June 12th, 2021
Editor: Regarding the legislation of censoring freedom of speech on social media – this is unacceptable! When a government decides to change the law in order to give themselves an advantage, this is when the leaders of that government should stop, look back at history, and realize their greed, their desire for power, and their ... Read More »
3 responsesHarder’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 »
4 responsesArts centre aspirations too big for a city of this size
By Letter to the Editor on June 10th, 2021
Editor: In a June 2 Herald article, councillors Carlson and Campbell make a case for a new Performing Arts Centre (PAC). I have partaken of the performing arts all of my life. I had a spouse and raised a child both of whom are amateur performing artists. I do not need to be convinced that ... Read More »
4 responsesCost of name changes would be prohibitive
By Letter to the Editor on June 10th, 2021
Editor: It is my belief that the special interest groups within our city are passing their own agendas onto the citizens of Lethbridge through the media with total disregard of how their “wants” will be funded or how they will affect the greater population. Such is the case of Ms. Digout requesting that the name ... Read More »
9 responsesPope needs to apologize for the residential schools
By Letter to the Editor on June 10th, 2021
Editor: On June 1, 2021 the Lethbridge Herald carried a front page photograph of children’s shoes laid on St. Patrick’s Church steps. As a Catholic, I am ashamed. And angry. I can no longer excuse the Pope’s refusal to apologize for residential school atrocities. Since the very definition of sin is an offense against truth ... Read More »
8 responsesBe wary when hiring contractors
By Letter to the Editor on June 10th, 2021
We had a contractor from Lethbridge build our patio. When he was done, I had a nightmare with a leaky roof. Initially, I asked him to build a wooden flat roof, but he insisted on an incline metal roof. The part of the fascia that connects the patio roof was too high and the roof ... Read More »
4 responsesWhere is Lethbridge’s third bridge?
By Letter to the Editor on June 9th, 2021
Editor: Missing in action from the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) currently before Council is any urgent priority for a third bridge to connect the west side of Lethbridge to the rest of the city. Council has selected the site for the Chinook Trail River Crossing, but the CIP only proposes $4,000,000 for preliminary design work, ... Read More »
2 responsesWe need to take action to help today’s aboriginal children
By Letter to the Editor on June 9th, 2021
Editor: Instead of more studies about what was wrongly done in the past to these children, we could take action to save the ones living today. One current area of neglect is fetal alcohol syndrome. Back in the Klein days, a Calgary child psychiatrist, Dr. O’Malley, was conducting fetal alcohol clinics that had a two-year ... Read More »
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