Opinions
Reflections upon the years serving Lethbridge
By Lethbridge Herald on June 29th, 2024
AT THE LEGISLATURE Shannon Phillips – NDP MLA for Lethbridge West “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” This quotation, often misattributed to Winnie the Pooh or his author A.A. Milne, is actually from a film that came out the year I was born. I have been reflecting on ... Read More »
2 responsesWe are a country in conflict as Canada Day approaches
By Lethbridge Herald on June 29th, 2024
OUR OPINION United we stand, divided we fall. It’s a phrase we’ve often heard and one which may be appropriate to consider as Canada Day approaches on Monday. While it’s often asociated with American politics, the origins of the phrase dates back thousands of years to the Greek storyteller Aesop. A song of the same ... Read More »
2 responsesLangenberg Optical will be dearly missed
By Lethbridge Herald on June 28th, 2024
LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber – Managing Editor With Canada Day weekend upon us, I thought long and hard about writing a column that might be sort of fun. I considered reminiscing about the 1980s and Canada Day long weekends back in Ontario where July 1 was huge with hundreds of people congregating on ... Read More »
1 responseHillcrest mine disaster victims will never be forgotten
By Lethbridge Herald on June 21st, 2024
LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber – Managing Editor When Vinc Vohradsky and his brother Josefu left their homes on the morning of June 19, 1914 to work in the Hillcrest Mine the day probably seemed like any other for them. The 26 year-old Vinc may have bid his 25-year-old wife Francis and their two ... Read More »
1 responseNo legitimate reason for council to delay reviews
By Lethbridge Herald on June 19th, 2024
OUR OPINION It sounded like a reasonable motion presented to city council – ask administration to do a review of fee-for-service agreements with external organizations and those with Memorandums of Understanding to see if the City is getting the best bang for the taxpayer buck. As heard at council’s June 11 meeting, the official business ... Read More »
2 responsesImportant items have kept city council busy
By Lethbridge Herald on June 15th, 2024
FROM THE HALL Blaine Hyggen – mayor of Lethbridge City council has been busy recently with several important items for the community. Earlier this week, council voted unanimously to provide the Lethbridge Housing Authority (LHA) with contingency funding of up to $1.05 million to support their new supportive housing project located at 416 Stafford Drive ... Read More »
8 responsesPhillips showed a warrior’s spirit in her work
By Lethbridge Herald on June 14th, 2024
LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber – Managing Editor So much of Canada is focused on the Stanley Cup playoffs this week with an Alberta team still in the hunt to bring home an NHL championship at long that I momentarily thought I could probably skip this column and nobody would miss it. Being a ... Read More »
8 responsesNorthback Holdings’ messaging between the public and officials are at odds
By Lethbridge Herald on June 8th, 2024
Kennedy Halvorson ALBERTA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION Your project description isn’t adding up, Northback. Whatwas pitched to Alberta’s energy regulator as “short-term and small-scale” doesn’t match with what’s been sold to nearby communities. Expected to last “105 days” and remove “approximately 10 tonnes” of coal, Northback’s legal team argued that the “localized, temporary and short” nature of ... Read More »
9 responsesAffordability: Alberta’s top priority
By Lethbridge Herald on June 8th, 2024
AT THE LEGISLATURE Nathan Neudorf – UCP MLA for Lethbridge East It should come as no surprise that addressing the cost of living is a top priority for the UCP government. After all, creating the new Ministry of Affordability and Utilities was one of the first things Danielle Smith did after becoming the Premier. Alberta’s ... Read More »
10 responsesIn celebration of seniors
By Lethbridge Herald on June 7th, 2024
LEAVE IT TO BEEBER Al Beeber – Managing Editor The other day I realized this is Seniors Week in Alberta. It started Monday and runs until Sunday. And now as an official 65-year-old I can actually celebrate it! Yeehah, I guess. So being a guy who acts more like 16 than 65 I’m perplexed about ... Read More »
1 responseAxe fuel taxes to give Canadians a summer break
By Lethbridge Herald on June 1st, 2024
FROM THE HILL Rachael Thomas – Conservative Member of Parliament for Lethbridge There is nothing like summer in Canada. Taking a road trip to Calgary to enjoy the zoo, camping out under the stars in Waterton, or spending the day in Writing-on-Stone National Park are just a few of the summer activities many of us ... Read More »
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