Letters to the Editor
Anti-science UCP is a danger to Albertans
By Lethbridge Herald on February 28th, 2025
Editor, We have a UCP government which is anti-science, anti-vaccine, and pro-open pit coal mining – a deadly combination. The UCP panders to its base as opposed to doing what is best for all Albertans. The UCP should be taking actions supported by scientists and engineers, by medical doctors and other health care professionals. But ... Read More »
36 responsesCUPE is fighting on behalf of Alberta’s students
By Lethbridge Herald on February 27th, 2025
Editor, Why are CUPE education sector workers on strike? Public education is at stake. This is why so many Albertans are working together to take a stand. Alberta’s public education system has the lowest per student funding in the country (public includes Catholic and Francophone school boards). Investments in public education have been systemically lowered over ... Read More »
1 responseSmith equates Alberta with Texas
By Lethbridge Herald on February 26th, 2025
Editor, Quoting from Alberta Hansard’s record of Dec. 7, 2022, Premier Smith said, in part, “I don’t know why it is they felt that they needed to suck up to Ottawa. It’s not like Ottawa is a national government. The way our country works is that we are a federation of sovereign, independent jurisdictions. They ... Read More »
13 responsesCarpenter letter hit the nail on the head
By Lethbridge Herald on February 26th, 2025
Editor, Once again, David Carpenter has provided the residents of Alberta with a thoughtful, factual response to a very important issue: Premier Smith’s trip to Florida to lobby Mr. Trump for Alberta’s fossil fuel industry. A premier trying to directly negotiate with a U.S. president is a flagrant disregard of federal/provincial jurisdiction. Ms. Smith is ... Read More »
5 responsesA state governed by market transactions, not democratic principles
By Lethbridge Herald on February 22nd, 2025
Dear Editor, Mr. Harper is back in Alberta to help the UCP government manage the Heritage Trust Fund. Mr. Harper’s stated utopian dream is the neo-liberal strong state which enforces markets. A state governed by market transactions, not democratic principles. I believe it is in our interests as citizens to inform ourselves in order to ... Read More »
21 responsesNow is the time for Premier Smith to ask the RCMP to investigate
By Lethbridge Herald on February 21st, 2025
Dear Editor, The UCP have been huddled for the last week planning how to divert attention away from the AHS scandal and select their scapegoat. No one believes for a moment that a Deputy minister, a bureaucrat, would act independent of the Minister or Premier’s wishes. It will be musical chairs within government to see ... Read More »
17 responsesStand up, exercise some ethics and integrity
By Lethbridge Herald on February 19th, 2025
Dear Editor, Clearly Energy Minister Brian Jean does not operate from a position of ethics and integrity. Following is a review of facts and time line of the now infamous Grassy Mountain: 1976 –The Lougheed-led provincial government, after consultation with various parties, including constituents/stakeholders, imposed a moratorium on coal mining in the Eastern Slopes. January ... Read More »
23 responses‘No translation needed’: the Americans are coming, the Americans are coming
By Lethbridge Herald on February 19th, 2025
Dear Editor, Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere… Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem is about the American hero Paul Revere who, on April 18th, 1775, rode through the night to warn soldiers that “the British are coming, the British are coming.” Our modern-day Paul Revere has manifested into ... Read More »
5 responsesWhen wind and drought collide with sheer stupidity
By Lethbridge Herald on February 14th, 2025
Dear Editor, A letter to Premier Danielle Smith: Here in the extreme upper headwaters of the Crowsnest River, on the downstream, downwind side of Grassy Mountain, the devastating impacts of protracted drought, water shortages, hurricane-force winds, sandblasting dust storms, and dry lake beds dominate discussion. The mid-winter dust storms, widespread, are most apparent here within ... Read More »
12 responsesCanada needs to defend itself from its worst enemies within
By Lethbridge Herald on February 13th, 2025
Dear Editor, If Canada is to survive, it needs to defend itself from its worst enemies within. Free trade within Canada is liberating in principle, better than its current trade barriers. But globally, free trade resulted in global compartmentalizing: China for heavy industry, India for textiles, Canada as the resource attic, USA as world policeman ... Read More »
6 responsesFentanyl scare is latest bugaboo for America
By Lethbridge Herald on February 13th, 2025
Dear Editor, Those who think there is not just as much, or more, fentanyl being produced in labs throughout America, for Americans, as there is coming in from elsewhere are deluding themselves. Nowhere is the demand higher and nowhere are there more opportunistic, unscrupulous entrepreneurs ready and willing to accommodate it and fully exploit the ... Read More »
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