Commentary

Editor, I enjoy watching the Liberals scurry around pretending they are making headway on trade and insisting all the while that it’s a deal for Canada or no deal. Meanwhile the real negotiator/dictator isn’t even in the room? So we flail away pretending to make headway when we have already been told exactly what is [...] Read More »

 Editor: I enjoy watching the Liberals scurry around pretending they are making headway on trade and insisting all the while that it’s a deal for Canada or no deal. Meanwhile the real negotiator/dictator isn’t even in the room? So we flail away pretending to make headway when we have already been told exactly what is [...] Read More »

Editor:  I am writing this because I am disappointed with the actions of the drivers on Whoop-Up Drive (Sunday) tonight. A young lady hit a deer on the east-bound lane which I then ran over. I had no time to react.  She pulled off to the side of the road and put her hazard lights [...] Read More »

Editor: I’ve actually got no real problem with the panelists that our illustrious Lady Premier has named to the Alberta Next Panel. But, as a card carrying United Conservative Party member, what I have a problem with is that the MLA for Brooks-Medicine Hat has sought to exclude New Democratic MLAs from the panel. They [...] Read More »

Editor: We have known Fr. Ian Gagne for the past nine-and one-half years since he came to St. Ambrose church in Coaldale, Alberta. We took him and his parents to Chef’s Hat restaurant for dinner when he first arrived and to get to know them better. Lisa, the owner, was generous with her hospitality and [...] Read More »

Laura Syron Quoi Media A recent surge in misleading ads and AI-generated videos on social media and other online sites promoting bogus diabetes products, treatments and cures — often using fake endorsements, including from my organization Diabetes Canada — poses a serious health risk to people living with diabetes. So far this year, Diabetes Canada has heard [...] Read More »

Lorne Fitch For the Herald The Alberta government would have us believe in impossible things, notably that it is possible to reduce red-tape while still boasting of the highest environmental stan dards. With their endlessly-repeated mantra of “responsible resource development” spewing out like hyperbolic exhaust from a rhetoric machine, language becomes ever more devoid of [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald Because of a provincially mandated requirement that all police departments be issued body worn cameras by the end of 2026, local taxpayers could be seeing an additional tax hike of some indeterminate amount when the next council does budget deliberations. Could is the operative word because while [...] Read More »

AT THE LEGISLATURE Nathan Neudorf – UCP MLA for Lethbridge East As we celebrate Canada’s birthday this July, it’s a time to reflect not only on our shared history but also on the strength and resilience that each province brings to our great nation. Alberta has always punched above its weight—and today, more than ever, [...] Read More »

LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber Lethbridge Herald Back in 2002 on the May long weekend, I had life-changing spinal surgery at Foothills Hospital in Calgary where a neurosurgeon named Dr. Rick Hu and his team removed four bulging discs from my neck and replaced the space between the vertebrae with bone from my left [...] Read More »