December 26th, 2024

Letters to the Editor

Alberta addressing shadow pandemic

By Letter to the Editor on April 22nd, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left a devastating mark on communities across the province. Daily, we are reminded of the importance to remain vigilant and safe by complying with public health measures. While this is helping fight the spread of COVID-19, this inevitable isolation is leading to increased rates of domestic violence. The United Nations has ... Read More »

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The right to ignore a bylaw doesn’t exist

By Letter to the Editor on April 22nd, 2021

Editor: Recently, I and four other masked customers encountered a person in an aisle of a local hardware store who was not following the mask by-law imposed both by the City of Lethbridge and the province of Alberta. When I asked him why he was not following the order, he indicated that he was acting ... Read More »

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Time to get the noisy ‘green’ buses off city streets

By Letter to the Editor on April 22nd, 2021

Editor: Now that his worship Spearman is leaving, would it be possible to convince one of our leaders to seriously look at the money poured down the toilet by Lethbridge transit. These noise-polluting, road-wrecking, house-jarring “green” fuel-wasting empty buses must be taken off the road. Kurt Veer Lethbridge... Read More »

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K-6 curriculum focuses on teaching essential knowledge and skills to Alberta students

By Letter to the Editor on April 21st, 2021

As the Minister of Education. my role has been guided by a simple phrase: do the right thing for the right reason. I know we have taken the right steps with the Kindergarten to Grade 6 draft curriculum, and put Alberta students on a path to success. After years of declining student academic performance in ... Read More »

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Hard-working hospital workers deserve the full support of Albertans

By Letter to the Editor on April 21st, 2021

Editor: I just recently spent 10 days in the Chinook Regional Hospital and one at Foothills. I would like to express thanks to all of the dedicated workers who look after our health needs. They work under stressful conditions due to COVID-19 as well as lack of support from Alberta Health and the UCP government. ... Read More »

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Democracy demands participation

By Letter to the Editor on April 21st, 2021

Editor: We experience liberty and freedom as a positive, both public and private. Education for liberty in democracy must be public rather than private. Liberty in public cannot be determined by competition or accumulation, as in wealth. When the market is believed to do the work of democracy, our culture is perverted, and the character ... Read More »

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Did UCP voters know what they were doing?

By Letter to the Editor on April 21st, 2021

Editor: Did anyone in Alberta who voted for the UCP in the last election realize that they were voting in a dictatorship? First they cut funding to the secondary education facilities across Alberta. Then they went after the public service workers. They reduced the number of teacher aides in classrooms. Now they are arbitrarily changing ... Read More »

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Parents and others weren’t included in K-6 curriculum development

By Letter to the Editor on April 20th, 2021

Editor: I am disappointed with the guest columnist who identified the attacks on K-6 curriculum as “partisan”! The writer claims that the critics were largely connected with the NDP government; then he goes on to say that they and the ATA were “locked out of the curriculum development process” thus they were “expected to say ... Read More »

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Alberta’s Coal Policy review is flawed

By Letter to the Editor on April 20th, 2021

There’s one sure-fire way to anger Albertans-promise us one thing and then renege on the promise. In the midst of the rage over an extremely ill-considered plan to throw open the Eastern Slopes for coal mining we were promised an independent process to provide advice to government on the future of coal. From the terms ... Read More »

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Take a pause for the cause

By Letter to the Editor on April 20th, 2021

Editor: The Municipal Development Plan (MDP) – one of the most critical documents to impact the future of Lethbridge – is currently before City Council. The MDP sets the policy direction for everything the City does for the next 10 years, which in turn dictates where our tax dollars are spent and how services will ... Read More »

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Children are at stake in the battle over Alberta’s new K-6 education curriculum

By Letter to the Editor on April 17th, 2021

You may have noticed the ongoing fight between Alberta’s Conservative government and the education establishment – the teachers’ union and university faculties of education – over the government’s new humanities curriculum. And you may have noticed that the “expert” commentary in the mainstream media is uniformly damning the Conservatives: “They want to set back our ... Read More »

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