Letters to the Editor
SAAG cafe represents a massive subsidy by the city
By Letter to the Editor on May 14th, 2021
Editor: What is the city social contract with tax-paying businesses? The Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) has been released. The Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG) project is again proposed, and again, wants to open a café with taxpayer money. We believe the SAAG, in addition to sports, the Exhibition, Street Wheelers, and others, is one of ... Read More »
8 responsesDisco golf has a great future
By Letter to the Editor on May 14th, 2021
Editor:I wanted to express my thoughts related to the ongoing conversation of disc golf at different parks and developing parks in our community. I was first introduced to one of the fastest growing professional sports in Canada, that is frisbee golf (disc golf) about four years ago by a friend. Since then content creators such ... Read More »
1 responseAlbertans want to know how to manage the demand on limited water resources
By Letter to the Editor on May 13th, 2021
Editor: The UCP government’s “sector by sector approach to economic stimulus” (Lethbridge Herald 30 April 2021 MLA Neudorf presents party’s sector-based approach for economic recovery) is out-of-date, and out-of-step. It is this narrow focus on promoting one industry absent a broader land use, environmental, social and public interest context that made Alberta a petro-state and ... Read More »
2 responsesToo many people will find a reason to despise others
By Letter to the Editor on May 13th, 2021
Editor: Westerners of East Asian heritage have been increasingly verbally and/or physically assaulted during the last year, the perpetrators perhaps under some delusion their targets are willful creators/spreaders of Covid-19. Many have no Chinese lineage, though their assailants seem to not care, maybe due to a hateful perception that they’re ‘all the same’. Overlooked is ... Read More »
4 responsesWhy are the anti-vaccination people exposing themselves and others to COVID?
By Letter to the Editor on May 12th, 2021
Editor: “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” (Buddha) But the way that we die is a bit of a problem. A slow, painful, gasping death is not on many people’s wish list. Consider death by diphtheria, tetanus or meningococcal disease. Diphtheria is dangerous because the bacteria which cause ... Read More »
23 responsesPeenaquim not a suitable site for a disc golf course
By Letter to the Editor on May 12th, 2021
Editor: Re: disc golf letter from Pat Derksen. In the year 2000, I designed, fund-raised and helped build the disc golf course at Nicholas Sheran Park for use in the 2001 Alberta Seniors Games. Following a thorough review of a number of site locations, this very large (135 acre) manicured multi-use park was selected as ... Read More »
2 responsesRiversdale Resources issues clarification statement
By Letter to the Editor on May 8th, 2021
Benga Mining Ltd., which operates in Canada as Riversdale Resources, respects the right of all Albertans to express their opinion, and recognizes that the Opinion pages of The Lethbridge Herald are meant to provide a forum for different points of view on various topics, and to spark and contribute to debate around key issues that affect ... Read More »
8 responsesLTC looking forward to contributing to improved processes
By Letter to the Editor on May 7th, 2021
Editor: Over the last few months, our City Manager Craig Dalton has engaged in open dialogue with the Lethbridge Transparency Council (LTC) on issues brought forward by the LTC. Our joint goal is to create a conduit to City Hall, where citizens can not just raise concerns, but also confirm information and understand the reasoning ... Read More »
2 responsesSystem misused
By Letter to the Editor on May 7th, 2021
Editor: I am writing tonight to express my disgust at this government’s negligent and reckless use of the Emergency Alert System. That system is meant to be used for time sensitive, immediate emergencies where lives are in imminent danger and swift action is imperative. Not to send out messages from a government who just told ... Read More »
32 responsesThere may be truth in figurative saying
By Letter to the Editor on May 7th, 2021
Editor: Deliberately blind to the recent spike in COVID-19 statistics, many Albertans appear to have chosen “the hill they want to die on”. Sadly, this figurative saying could turn out to be prophetic. Citing their rights and freedoms these Albertans gather in clusters, unmasked, unvaccinated and wilfully ignorant of the risk of being exposed to ... Read More »
21 responsesWhy was Mustard Seed proposal not seen as beneficial?
By Letter to the Editor on May 6th, 2021
Editor: Regarding the letter by Mr. Mogdan about the City of Lethbridge rejecting the Mustard Seed proposal for a sober drop-in centre and soup kitchen on 13th Street and 1st Avenue South, I have the following questions: Why was the Mustard Seed proposal not seen to benefit the public as a whole? This marginalised population ... Read More »
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