Nenshi brings unity message to town hall
By Lethbridge Herald on August 19, 2025.
Al Beeber
Lethbridge Herald
Provincial NDP leader Naheed Nenshi wants residents to make Alberta “better together” for all.
The NDP’s Better Together town hall tour hit Casa on Monday night.
Joining Nenshi, who is part of today’s Whoop-Up Days Parade, were Lethbridge West MLA Rob Miyashiro and Kathleen Ganley, the MLA for Calgary-Mountain View.
The purpose of the tour is to share ways of standing up for Canada. Monday’s event was sold out.
Nenshi, in an interview Monday morning before he spoke at the town hall, told The Herald that the UCP government is hosting its own town halls “to try and pretend that they are interested in Canada while stoking separatist sentiment” and it’s important to stand up for Canada.
“We cannot let the country drift away because of the neglect and incompetence of this UCP government, because they don’t care about the bad outcomes that they may be starting. They just care about staying in power.”
The NDP town halls this summer and into the fall will give the opposition party an opportunity to let Albertans talk to each other about how residents are better together.
“That has two meanings- it means that Alberta is better together with Canada, but it also means that we as Albertans are better when we stand together and look after one another,” he said.
The Casa event, he said, was a bit of an experiment where audience members had an opportunity to showcase what “better together” looks like for them, by talking to others there how that can work with all sorts of issues, including health care and pensions.
“We really want to hear what people have to say and what they have to say with one another,” said Nenshi.
The fact the event was sold out “really speaks to the passion that folks have about Canada and about getting us off this path of divisiveness and onto a path that actually does good things for Albertans,” he added.
The NDP leader also commented on Lethbridge East MLA Nathan Neudorf’s input on splitting Lethbridge into four ridings.
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Sold out? With over 40,000 eligible voters in Lethbridge riding and the small room at Casa, I would hope it was sold out! Hilarious!
The NDP has all the answers? They know how to fix healhcare when every other province in Canada is suffering the same staffing shortages?
My business is still suffering the impacts of the supposed safe drug consumption site and their pro-harm reduction policies and it has cost the Alberta taxpayers billions and Lethbrige taxpayers over $100,000 million.
The NDP has a lot of give me’s who want everything given to them while they cancel every project the generates revenues to pay for those social services. They have academics who fill our young people’s minds with anti-West thoughts, including pro-Palestinian thoughts which supports the terrorists, instead of focusing on training up this young minds for their careers. The NDP destroyed our city and nothing will ever change my mind!
We have had to pay a high price downtown because of their failed policies. Their is now tangible, undeniable evidences that harm reduction and this drug consumption sites were a mistake as we see the UCP policies which are still being implemented, cutting fatal overdoses by 60% in our city and almost 50% province wide!
Those are lives saved! It isn’t just about the money it has cost, hundreds of lives were lost in Southern Alberta, with many families devastated!
Beat your chests all you want, and spread your decent, but many of us know the truth now!
Mr. Nenshi and Mr. Miyashiro, what a pair and throw in Ganley and you have the “three stooges” In persona! The NDP, a laughable failed federal party and provincially a “square peg trying to fit in a round hole” they just don’t belong in this wonderful province and look forward to the next election where we can entirely wipe them out.