Opinions
Battling a pandemic, ‘Shandemic’
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 22nd, 2020
By Southern Alberta Physicians Dear Lethbridge and surrounding community, We are in troubling times. Physicians and the community are feeling uncertain and frightened. One aspect. of this fear is the government’s health-care cuts, which have included terminating the Physician Master Agreement and implementing a new Physician Funding Framework without expert physician involvement. This has been ... Read More »
6 responsesLives and livelihoods
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 18th, 2020
Reopening the U.S. economy too soon could be disastrous Wuhan, the Chinese city where it all started, was locked down for 79 days before the restrictions on movement were finally lifted last week. A bit over-cautious, perhaps, but in China the coronavirus does really seem to be under control – not totally eradicated, but controllable ... Read More »
9 responsesGetting through the COVID crisis
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 17th, 2020
I’d like to start out by thanking and acknowledging the hard work of the people who have been guiding our city through this COVID-19 pandemic. The doctors, nurses, retail sector employees, truck drivers and all others; our Emergency Co-ordination Centre (ECC) team; our first responders; our police; our staff >enforcing bylaws, communicating and maintaining community ... Read More »
1 responseEnergy sector critical to economy
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 16th, 2020
COVID-19 crisis can’t be excuse to kill a key industry Mark Milke and Lennie Kaplan CANADIAN ENERGY CENTRE While the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic downturn, anti-energy activists have spotted an opportunity: to kill off Canada’s oil and gas industry – the one that provides hundreds of thousands of jobs and ... Read More »
6 responsesNo food shortage yet, but …
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 15th, 2020
We’re entering a crucial period in the pandemic Sylvain Chalebois PROFESSOR IN FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND POLICY, DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY Access to food during the COVID-19 crisis has been a source of anxiety everywhere in the West. But the worst of the pandemic is yet to come, which means that anything can still happen. Panic buying by ... Read More »
2 responsesSystem ill-prepared for crisis
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 14th, 2020
Gwyn Morgan CONTRIBUTOR, TROY MEDIA The Liberal government’s plan to use Canada’s “fiscal firepower” to help Canadian families and businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic has been appropriately termed “a measured well-targeted response” by the Fraser Institute. But no amount of cash can change the terrible reality that Canada’s health-care system is one of the least ... Read More »
3 responsesSpain, COVID-19 and basic income
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 11th, 2020
Crisis an opportunity to make basic income permanent part of economy In times of great emergency, when the normal rules have been suspended, all sorts of things that used to seem unthinkable suddenly enter the realm of possibility. A national health service paid for by taxes and free at the point of delivery in the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Getting through pandemic together
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 9th, 2020
It is hard to believe that the last time I wrote an article most of us barely knew what COVID-19 was, let alone imagined the impact it would be having on us now. >The changes to our everyday lives have been immense and I am sad to say but we will likely be here for ... Read More »
4 responsesCOVID changing how we buy food
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 8th, 2020
Sylvain Charlebois PROFESSOR IN FOOD DISTRIBUTION AND POLICY, DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY COVID-19 will redefine grocery shopping and food service. Convenience now has a different meaning. It’s less about saving time and more about survival and safety. Before the crisis, barely anyone ordered online and many Canadians wondered why someone would ever order food in that fashion. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Green’ energy won’t meet needs
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 7th, 2020
Cosmos Voutsinos The recent column by the Southern Alberta Group for the Environment (SAGE) promoted wind and solar technologies, based on a series of half truths and omissions. SAGE stated that renewable technologies generate more energy per energy input, ignoring the energy needed to build, operate, maintain and decommission all “backup” electricity generation facilities that ... Read More »
45 responsesHungary: The first casualty?
By Lethbridge Herald Opinon on April 4th, 2020
Pandemic provides opportunity for leaders with dictatorial ambitions “Hello, dictator!” said Jean-Claude Juncker cheerily to Hungary’s leader, Victor Orb‡n, at a European Union summit meeting a couple of years ago. The president of the European Commission was only joking, of course, but it was gallows humour. Dictatorship was clearly where Orb‡n was heading – and ... Read More »
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