Letters to the Editor

Premier is off-base on net zero claims

By Lethbridge Herald on May 8th, 2025

Editor, Premier Danielle Smith says that the federal net zero regulations on electricity production set a carbon emissions limit that is completely unattainable, and would make Alberta’s electricity system more expensive and “more than 100 times less reliable.” (Lethbridge Herald, May 3) Nothing could be further from the truth. The Pembina Institute, a respected environmental ... Read More »

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We saw the essence of Poilievre in this election

By Lethbridge Herald on May 7th, 2025

Editor, Re “One moment captured Poilievre’s fatal weakness” (May 1, 2020): I agree with Dan O’Donnell’s assessment that Poilievre’s apple-munching interview in which he behaved rudely and dismissively toward a reporter was a defining moment. When I saw the news report I immediately thought if Poilievre sticks with that behaviour and approach, it wouldn’t bode ... Read More »

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Congratulations and best of luck to MP Rachael Thomas

By Lethbridge Herald on May 6th, 2025

Editor, As a long-term and permanent resident of our Lethbridge community, I write this Letter to the Editor of The Lethbridge Herald to congratulate Mrs. Rachael Thomas, our Member of Parliament, for Lethbridge, Alberta, on her recent electoral victory. I first met Ms. Harder (unmarried at the time) when she sought the leadership of the ... Read More »

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Re-invention of NDP will affect government for years to come

By Lethbridge Herald on May 2nd, 2025

Editor, This was the election of change for a number of reasons. The NDP collapsed, yet through a stroke of luck ended up holding the balance of power. The Bloc disavowed support for Canada as a country in the face of Trump’s threats. The Greens completed their retreat from Canadian politics, although Elizabeth May continues ... Read More »

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Protesting over the Eastern Slopes is not ‘eco-terrorism’

By Lethbridge Herald on April 30th, 2025

Editor, I am a regular participant, along with several other local constituents who peacefully protest at the lights in Claresholm. We are against the destruction of our Rocky Mountains shouldered by the Eastern Slopes, Alberta’s primary water shed. A continual battle has waged between the government elected to serve all citizens, and the majority of ... Read More »

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It’s clear the UCP doesn’t have the best interests of Albertans at heart

By Lethbridge Herald on April 25th, 2025

Editor, In Lethbridge-East MLA Nathan Neudorf’s April 15 Herald column, he tries to blame a decade-old NDP government for the rising transmission costs on your power bill. If this sounds absurd, let me assure you: it is. Mr. Neudorf claims that the need for new transmission lines was caused by the NDP’s “coal phase-out and ... Read More »

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Mining fears addressed by science, research

By Lethbridge Herald on April 22nd, 2025

Editor, To have a complaint is to have a purpose. Many individuals in our society crave for meaning and purpose in an otherwise boring and meaningless existence. Our society is saturated with secular humanist rhetoric centred on the establishment of a group movement such as an environmental movement advocating for a Utopian future which ignores ... Read More »

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National anthem, other symbols belong at election forums

By Lethbridge Herald on April 11th, 2025

Editor, O Canada, what have we done to thee? At the all-candidates last evening, it dawned on me that something was missing; the evening began with the obligatory aboriginal land acknowledgement then proceeded directly into the meeting. We are not simply wandering strangers meeting on someone else’s land; we are Canadians – meeting in Canada ... Read More »

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Herald poll question misleading to readers

By Lethbridge Herald on April 11th, 2025

Editor, The Lethbridge Herald must be called to account for a recent poll that misleads the voting public, specifically the daily poll published in the online newspaper on April 9th. This poll read “Should federal candidates address coal mining even though it’s a provincial issue?” As anyone who has lived in Alberta for a while ... Read More »

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This election is time to vote with our heads

By Lethbridge Herald on April 10th, 2025

Editor, As we grow ever closer to our federal election, the Liberals and Conservatives are feverishly making promises that may or may not be doable. We will never know until they try but these promises are made for all Canadians. And that is the point isn’t it “for all Canadians.” The Alberta and Saskatchewan governments ... Read More »

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Let’s focus on bad driving habits

By Lethbridge Herald on April 10th, 2025

Editor, Given the recent interest in the Herald with respect to driving habits in Lethbridge. How about a regular column in the paper perhaps in collaboration with Lethbridge Police, focusing in on certain common driving errors. Some might include: which lane to turn into when making a left turn, how to signal into and out ... Read More »

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