Opinions
Brazil and the populist pandemic
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 13th, 2020
Voters seem willing to tolerate leader’s bad behaviour What do you do if you are in charge of dealing with the pandemic and the number of deaths is getting out of control? Simple. Stop publishing the number. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been having a bad time with the pandemic. His default mode has been ... Read More »
2 responsesAwareness training would help officers
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 12th, 2020
The police play a crucial role in our society in ensuring public safety and arresting those who commit crimes. With the drug crisis facing our city, one may argue that enforcement role has never been more important. Our local officers risk themselves every day to ensure others in society do not have to face that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Strong plan going forward needed
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 12th, 2020
I know that many of us would like a “do over” on the way that 2020 has unfolded. Our community, like all of Alberta, has faced the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war on the price of oil, and a global recession. First the impacts and concerns about health, safety, transmission and the curve ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fund social programs, not The Watch
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 11th, 2020
Jaisie Walker and Rebecca Runions The Watch was established in Lethbridge in 2019 in order to “increase the perception of public safety” (Lethbridge Police Service’s 2018 Annual report.) The volunteer-run program received $1.2 million of taxpayers’ money over its first two years. However, there are growing concerns amongst community members who are questioning the efficacy ... Read More »
10 responsesEconomy and employment: Booming the southern Prairies
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 10th, 2020
Explorig food production and renewable energy synergies James Byrne, Kent Peacock, Paul Hazendonk and John Vokey University of Lethbridge Vegetables. An important part of a healthy diet. Eat a balanced diet; eat your vegetables. That’s why Canadians spend many billions of dollars every year on imported vegetables from the United States, Mexico and other tropical ... Read More »
8 responsesRace relations in America
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 6th, 2020
Racism in the United States is different than in other countries It’s been a bad week in the United States: continuing protests, huge anger, rioting and looting in 50 cities, hundreds arrested or injured – but only six dead over the police murder of George Floyd. The number may have gone up by the time ... Read More »
16 responsesA hope that one day society will get things right
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 6th, 2020
Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” That thought is the hope of every generation – that right now things might be a mess, but one day we as a society will get things right. It’s wildly ambitious. Perhaps one ... Read More »
2 responsesParliament an essential service
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 5th, 2020
Canada’s democratic system is under siege. Last week, the Liberals, with the help of the NDP and the Green Party, suspended Parliament until the fall. In its stead, will sit a Special Committee, at which the opposition is stripped of its key powers and responsibilities. Arguably, we are functioning as an autocracy, rather than a ... Read More »
3 responsesInvest in, rather than policing, communities
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 4th, 2020
Ibrahim Turay and Jason Laurendeau Once again, there is violence in the streets in many American cities. And once again, it is the usual suspects. Meanwhile, those charged with protecting their communities, those who have seen enough of this thuggery, are rallying in the streets, insisting that Black Lives Matter, and that the police be ... Read More »
15 responsesReleasing grizzly cubs back into wild not most humane solution
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 4th, 2020
Gordon Stenhouse Alberta Environment and Parks I write today to respond to a recent n open letter regarding three grizzly bear cubs that government Fish and Wildlife officers rescued – and to clear up misinformation contained in the letter. These grizzly bear cubs are four months old and would not have survived in the wild ... Read More »
2 responsesNikka Yuko Japanese Garden facility good investment for City
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on June 3rd, 2020
Trina Tymko, Kimberly Lyall and Barrie Orich Board members, Lethbridge Transparency Council In 2017, Lethbridge City Council approved the Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden Program and Community Facility (Facility) as part of the Capital Improvement Program (CIP). On April 6, council defeated a motion to discontinue the project, thereby keeping the project in the current CIP ... Read More »
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