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Voters need to make the right choice for environment
By Braum Barber on August 25th, 2021
The first international effort to understand the impact of releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere from the burning of oil, gas and coal was published in 1990. Over 30 years later, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change continues to publish the synthesis of climate research based on the efforts of ... Read More »
9 responsesCan Canada afford $10-a-day-daycare?
By Roslyn Kunin - Troy Media on August 21st, 2021
Providing quality care for preschool children is a good thing. Children learn to socialize in groups beyond their family. They acquire the skills and readiness that will allow them to succeed in elementary school and later in life. With children well looked after, all parents are free to take jobs or pursue careers contributing to ... Read More »
2 responsesAirport and transit improvements on the way
By Lethbridge Herald on August 20th, 2021
Chris Spearman – Lethbridge mayor COVID-19 active case numbers and hospitalizations have started to rise back up in Alberta, as they are in many other places around the world. As people start to head back indoors, it is important that everyone in the community does their part to limit the spread to help ensure we ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A Canadian dream
By Rachael Harder - MP for Lethbridge on August 6th, 2021
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” This is the verse inscribed into the stone over the West window of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill. The words are strong, but I believe they are true. Humans have the incredible ability to cast vision and to dream of what tomorrow may look like. We ... Read More »
9 responsesRising COVID-19 case numbers make vaccines more important
By Lethbridge Herald on July 30th, 2021
Chris Spearman – Lethbridge mayor Thank you to everyone who has taken the opportunity to be vaccinated against COVID-19. As of Wednesday, 75 per cent of eligible Albertans have received at least one dose of vaccine through Alberta Health Services, community pharmacies and physician clinics. Also, 64 per cent are now fully immunized with both doses. ... Read More »
1 responseElection season on the horizon for Albertans?
By LH EDITORIAL BOARD on July 24th, 2021
Choosing the right moment to force a federal election is the ultimate in speculative political maneuvering, and Canadian politicians have been desperate to properly interpret these tea leaves since the days of Confederation. More often than not, the political prognosticators fail to locate the pulse of the Canadian electorate, and more than a few campaigns ... Read More »
9 responsesCanada’s clean energy plan must include nuclear
By Krystle Wittevrongel on July 23rd, 2021
In 1950, Canada faced a difficult choice between the desire to be a leader in the development of nuclear energy technology and the fear that such technology would bring the end of the world a little closer. Â Despite concerns related to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Canada elected to be in the vanguard. Â As ... Read More »
4 responsesAlberta government not interested in stewardship
By Shannon Phillips - MLA West Lethbridge on July 23rd, 2021
While I often spend the cold months of the year wishing for warmer and sunnier weather, I fear Mother Nature may have gone a bit overboard in the last few weeks. It’s been a long time since I can remember such a stretch of hot, dry weather. And now, as is increasingly becoming the norm ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The case for electric vehicles losing its charge
By Kenneth Green on July 22nd, 2021
 I’m not a climate skeptic. As an environmental scientist/engineer by training, I think climate change is real. But it’s like every other environmental issue: a more-or-less routine engineering challenge, rather than a world-altering disaster justifying the fever-dreams of the radical greens.  I am, however, an electric vehicle skeptic. Or, more broadly, I’m skeptical that electric ... Read More »
12 responsesLet’s stretch out the week celebrating Indigenous women for a year
By Lethbridge Herald Opinion on July 22nd, 2021
 The fifth ballot win that made RoseAnne Archibald the first ever female national chief of the Assembly of First Nations sealed the Week of Indigenous Women in Canada.  Fittingly, it came only seven days after the wave of soul-searching national angst over residential schools that led to overwrought cancellations of Canada Day in some corners ... Read More »
4 responsesTrudeau gun grab will be ineffective and expensive
By Franco Terrazzano and Kevin Lacey on July 21st, 2021
 Here we go again.  Ottwa’s budget watchdog is on the trail of another big taxpayer boondoggle in the making with the federal government’s latest gun policy.  First, a Liberal government introduced the gun registry in the 1990s. That was supposed to cost $2 million, but, by the time it was abolished in 2012, the tally ... Read More »
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