Opinions
Students should be able to count on caring, acceptance at school
By Herald on November 18th, 2020
Darren Mazutinec Superintendent Westwind School Division Early in teaching my career, as I was preparing my Grade 6 classroom one morning, one of my students showed up a little earlier than expected and pulled up a chair beside my desk. This student looked a little tired and sad, and I asked, “Is everything OK?” The ... Read More »
1 responseTime to invest in energy sector
By Lethbridge Herald Opinion on November 18th, 2020
Imagine a global $800-billion natural gas and oil investment market and the opportunity that represents for Canada. Canadians should be very interested in what it would mean for our country’s economic recovery if we market the strengths of our vast natural gas and oil industry, and capture an increasing share of those billions of investment ... Read More »
2 responsesStop the spread of COVID-19 by taking personal responsibility
By Herald on November 16th, 2020
After weeks of soaring COVID-19 cases, the province was left with little choice when last Thursday it announced new restrictions for several jurisdictions in Alberta, including Lethbridge. While perhaps some measure of blame can be directed at the provincial government for not acting quickly enough, all one can really say in looking at the numbers ... Read More »
2 responsesWe need to make good choices during pandemic
By Lethbridge Herald on November 14th, 2020
After weeks of soaring COVID-19 cases, the province was left with little choice when on Thursday it announced new restrictions for several jurisdictions in Alberta, including Lethbridge. While perhaps some measure of blame can be directed at the provincial government for not acting quickly enough, all one can really say in looking at the numbers ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!An Armenian-Azerbaijani truce
By Lethbridge Herald on November 14th, 2020
This time, the truce will last. The 2,000 Russian troops flying into Armenia this week and fanning out to police the ceasefire lines in Nagorno-Karabakh are being sent there for five years renewable, and neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan will challenge them. Armenia is in shock, but what remains of the Armenian enclave in western Azerbaijan ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Poor child at the government table?
By Lethbridge Herald on November 13th, 2020
Lethbridge has actually received its fair share of funding from the province If you spend any time at all listening to certain political voices on social media, a concerning narrative emerges with regards to our city. A picture is painted of Lethbridge, the poor child, at the government table, fighting for scraps of any remaining ... Read More »
6 responsesWealth creator vs. wealth consumer
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on November 12th, 2020
Danny Hozack CHAIRMAN, ECONOMIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Is Alberta a producer of wealth or a consumer of wealth? Alberta’s energy industry, Alberta’s economy, and Albertans, are definitely producers of wealth. Alberta has produced and sent $630 billion net tax dollars to Eastern Canada over the past 30 years. Dr. Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, spoke ... Read More »
8 responsesCall to reject curriculum changes
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on November 11th, 2020
Dear Minister LaGrange and Shannon Philips, MLA Lethbridge West: We write to encourage you to reject the proposed K-4 curricular changes. Because the UCP government is preoccupied with developing an unbiased curriculum intent on delivering the facts, we will begin by reminding you of three: First, intersectionality has been mainstreamed by the United Nations. In ... Read More »
4 responsesU.S. election: more of the same?
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on November 7th, 2020
Electoral College remains as big a problem as ever By the time you read this you may know more than I do as I write it, but some conclusions about the U.S. election are already certain. First, this has been essentially a re-run of the 2016 presidential election. The final Electoral College tally and therefore ... Read More »
7 responsesWhat happened to the balance?
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on November 7th, 2020
change in alberta’s coal policy goes against true environmental balance Braum Barber SOUTHERN ALBERTA GROUP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Imagine a teeter-totter balanced by children, each able to launch their end in turn. This might represent a balance between a healthy environment and human economy. When you think of “balance,” you might think of the scales ... Read More »
3 responsesFreedom is not a freebie
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on November 6th, 2020
President Ronald Reagan once said “freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have ... Read More »
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