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Local news crisis is fuelling disinformation
By Lethbridge Herald on April 1st, 2025
By David Macdonald Troy Media Twice the proportion of Canadians today have little to no local news compared to 16 years ago—and as this loss accelerates, the threat of disinformation does too. Since 2008, Canada has lost 11 per cent of its newspaper and online media outlets. Over that same period, nine per cent of ... Read More »
5 responsesChow mein on the list of reasons to call Lethbridge home
By Lethbridge Herald on March 31st, 2025
POINT OF VIEW – Editor Scott Sakatch There’s a long list of reasons my wife and I decided to make the move back to Lethbridge a little over a year ago. Chief among them was the fact that much of our family is here. Another key factor was the real estate market in the city ... Read More »
2 responsesThe Alberta government has a habit of trusting the wrong people – leaving taxpayers to foot the bill
By Lethbridge Herald on March 28th, 2025
By Doug Firby Troy Media The poor Alberta government. At times, they come across as a hapless bunch of hayseeds—easy prey for any P.T. Barnum-style huckster who shows up on our doorstep. In recent years, Alberta’s highest-profile and most cringeworthy blunders have piled up like bad investments: • In 2022, the United Conservative Party (UCP) ... Read More »
6 responsesExercise worth the effort as you age
By Lethbridge Herald on March 27th, 2025
LEAVE IT TO BEEBER – Al Beeber How can a person maintain a healthy weight and a healthy heart at any age? As a guy who spent many years and hours in the gym hitting the weights hard before surgery in 2002 at Foothills Hospital in Calgary to remove four herniated discs in my neck, ... Read More »
1 responseOdds are we’re in for an interesting election campaign
By Lethbridge Herald on March 24th, 2025
POINT OF VIEW – Editor Scott Sakatch I have to admit, when I read that Prime Minister Mark Carney was going to call an election this past Sunday, I didn’t imagine it would have much of an impact here. After all, conservative-leaning candidates have held the Lethbridge riding through every election since 1930. That’s almost ... Read More »
3 responsesStudent restrictions gutting universities
By Lethbridge Herald on March 24th, 2025
By Roslyn Kunin For Troy Media Canada isn’t just facing bad news from the ever-changing chaos south of the border; we’re generating our own with damaging policies right here at home. Nowhere is this more evident than in the higher education sector, which is grappling with budget shortfalls, layoffs, hiring freezes, program reductions and cuts ... Read More »
4 responsesOnline services an affordable way to look into your heritage
By Lethbridge Herald on March 21st, 2025
LEAVE IT TO BEEBER – Al Beeber Herald readers will occasionally see on our pages the byline of a writer named George Lee, who is doing a Local Journalism Initiative contract for the Fort Macleod Gazette. George, I and Gazette owner Frank McTighe have a long history together, meeting for the first time way back ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Government waste, corporate excess drag us down
By Lethbridge Herald on March 18th, 2025
By Perry Kinkaide Troy Media The global economy is flashing warning signs. Rising debt, inflation and rampant speculation have created an unstable financial environment. While a full-scale depression like 1929 may not be imminent, the excesses of today are undeniable. Households, businesses and governments alike are living beyond their means, banking on endless growth to ... Read More »
1 responseSouthern Albertans are rightfully concerned
By Lethbridge Herald on March 14th, 2025
AT THE LEGISLATURE – Rob Miyashiro – NDP MLA for Lethbridge West On Jan. 20, I had the great honour of being sworn in as the MLA for Lethbridge-West, making me the 985th member of the Alberta Legislature in the last 120 years, and the first member that is of Japanese and Okinawan descent. I ... Read More »
8 responsesSocial media a playground for critics
By Lethbridge Herald on March 14th, 2025
You know what’s cheap to give in abundance? Criticism. Hence, the idiom “Everyone is a critic”—magnified by everyone having a smartphone—and why no statues have been erected in honour of critics. Social media platforms, intended to encourage sharing and interaction, have turned us into keyboard warriors, relentlessly expressing unsolicited opinions and tearing others down. Whether ... Read More »
2 responsesFollowing in Dad’s footsteps and letting go
By Lethbridge Herald on March 13th, 2025
LEAVE IT TO BEEBER – Al Beeber Unlike past years, March 8 was here and gone with nothing said by me to anyone about a date that for all the wrong reasons is a special one. Anniversaries of family deaths can be like that. And March 8 is a date is one I’d be quite ... Read More »
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