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 »
6 responsesBy 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 »
6 responsesBy 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 »
10 responsesBy 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 »
5 responsesBy 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 »
3 responsesBy 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 »
9 responsesBy 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 »
8 responsesBy 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 »
9 responsesBy 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 »
5 responsesBy 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 »
2 responsesBy 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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