Letters to the Editor
Premier Smith’s comments either ignorant or dishonest
By Lethbridge Herald on May 9th, 2025
Editor, Congratulations to Danielle Smith for single-handedly embarrassing the entire province of Alberta in just one 20-minute speech. It’s actually quite impressive how much misinformation, nationalistic pandering, and historical revisionism she managed to cram into such a short timeframe. Those 20 minutes were not just misleading they were an insult to the intelligence of anyone ... Read More »
11 responsesAnti-vaxxer crowd should be careful what they wish for
By Lethbridge Herald on May 8th, 2025
Editor, Along with many others, I remember the Convoy shutdowns when trucks with giant Canadian flags sticking out the backs of their boxes roared en masse up and down University Drive and Scenic Drive, shutting down various streets and roads. They were protesting vaccine requirements. Meanwhile, every year millions of people in third world countries die ... Read More »
13 responsesPremier 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 »
11 responsesWe 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 »
16 responsesCongratulations 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 »
13 responsesRe-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 »
13 responsesProtesting 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 »
8 responsesIt’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 »
24 responsesMining 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 »
14 responsesNational 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 »
12 responsesHerald 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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