Opinions
New alcohol guidelines hard to swallow
By Lethbridge Herald on January 26th, 2023
Sylvain Charlebois DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY Looks like we all need to drink less alcohol. Last fall, the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), a national organization that provides information and advice on substance use and addiction, shared recommendations that we should all drink no more than one or two drinks a week. We just ... Read More »
5 responsesTrudeau’s tax hikes will harm the middle class in 2023
By Lethbridge Herald on January 19th, 2023
Franco Terrazzano CANADIAN TAXPAYERS FEDERATION Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to govern for “the middle class and those working hard to join it.” Canadians can be forgiven if we feel he’s forgotten that promise. Whether it’s the nurse working at the hospital, the mom who commutes to work each day or the newcomers to Canada ... Read More »
4 responsesKey initiatives moving forward in the legislature
By Lethbridge Herald on January 14th, 2023
AT THE LEGISLATURE Nathan Neudorf – UCP MLA for Lethbridge East Happy New Year! I hope all of you were able to have some time away from work, away from the cold and spent time with family and friends to enjoy the gifts of the season. As we look ahead to 2023 stretching out before ... Read More »
4 responsesDanielle Smith is right to shield firearms owners from Trudeau
By Lethbridge Herald on January 12th, 2023
Kris Sims Canadian Taxpayers Federation Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is making the right move by trying to shield thousands of Alberta firearms owners from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wasteful gun grab. Analysts are warning that the last-minute expansion of the federal government’s Bill C-21 to include thousands of commonly-owned long guns will cost taxpayers a ... Read More »
1 responseLand acknowledgements have outlived their usefulness
By Lethbridge Herald on January 11th, 2023
Bill Whitelaw GEOLOGIC SYSTEMS Is it time to rethink Indigenous land acknowledgements that often open energy-sector conference sessions? Are we ready to question their utility and effectiveness in advancing the interests of Canada’s Indigenous peoples? Are they moving the reconciliation needle – or have they become little more than meaningless, monotone and mechanistic verbiage? In ... Read More »
2 responsesTrudeau puts politics over public safety
By Lethbridge Herald on January 7th, 2023
FROM THE HILL Rachael Thomas – Conservative MP for Lethbridge Since the Liberals took power seven years ago, violent crime has increased by 32 per cent and gang-related violence has grown by 92 per cent. There is no doubt about it, Canada is facing a public safety crisis. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police ... Read More »
10 responsesAnnouncing corporate bonuses requires tact and empathy
By Lethbridge Herald on January 6th, 2023
Sylvain Charlebois DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY With a new year starting, we hear announcements about bonuses in food retailing. Metro recently announced that it offered five top senior executives $3.7 million in bonuses. This represents a four per cent increase in bonus payouts over the previous year, while Metro sales grew 3.3 per cent over the past ... Read More »
1 responseDiversity of opinion has an important place in society
By Lethbridge Herald on January 5th, 2023
Brian Giesbrecht FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY The quest for “diversity” has become the universal rallying cry for every institution, including universities, government departments, corporations, and even law societies. “Diversity” has been defined as including skin colour, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. However, the one kind of diversity not included on this list – and ... Read More »
9 responsesYour 2023 guide to Newspeak
By Lethbridge Herald on January 4th, 2023
Bruce3 Dowbiggin One of the best ways to explain 2022’s rapidly devolving world is to suggest that for men, life is sports. For women, however, life is culture. After a sustained reign where sports ruled the nations, culture has become paramount in the past generation – and with it, the power of women and their ... Read More »
1 responseCatch-and-release bail system a failure
By Lethbridge Herald on December 31st, 2022
LH EDITORIAL BOARD Goodbye, 2022. You were quite the experience! But will 2023 be any different or better? Only time will tell. As we say goodbye to yet another year, it’s only natural to wonder what lies ahead for our city, province, country and world. Like every year, 2022 was an eventful one. It had ... Read More »
6 responsesIdeology trumps common sense in Canada
By Lethbridge Herald on December 29th, 2022
Brian Giesbrecht FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY When COVID-19 first appeared in Wuhan, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) strategists seized upon a radical plan to prevent the spread of the virus. Instead of adopting a pandemic plan to protect the oldest and weakest while keeping daily life functioning as normally as possible, the CCP did ... Read More »
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