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 responsesFailure 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 »
Be the first to comment!Be 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 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 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 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 responsesCarbon tax designed to reward efficiency
By Letter to the Editor on June 9th, 2021
Editor: Is it dishonest to only tell half the truth? On June 4, The Herald published a letter from Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation that accused the Liberals and Conservatives of dishonesty. One can argue about this point, but by only talking about the tax side of the federal carbon tax system, Terrazzano ... Read More »
6 responsesParking problems brewing in city
By Letter to the Editor on June 9th, 2021
Editor: Every adult is beginning to own a car or a pick-up truck. I hope it’s the sign of an affluent and happy community. I guess we should celebrate it. However, I can see a battle brewing. It’s parking. I look around my neighbourhood and see the cars parked on the street. It looks like ... Read More »
2 responsesClimate change a battle everyone must fight
By Letter to the Editor on June 9th, 2021
Editor: In the June issue of Harper’s magazine, Greg Jackson presents a penetrating essay on how the world must deal with climate change. He refers to it as a fight and uses the USA’s response to its involvement in the Second World War. It is his contention that the same total response to the climate ... Read More »
11 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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