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Alberta government not interested in stewardship
By Shannon Phillips - MLA West Lethbridge on July 23rd, 2021
While I often spend the cold months of the year wishing for warmer and sunnier weather, I fear Mother Nature may have gone a bit overboard in the last few weeks. It’s been a long time since I can remember such a stretch of hot, dry weather. And now, as is increasingly becoming the norm ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Let’s stretch out the week celebrating Indigenous women for a year
By Lethbridge Herald Opinion on July 22nd, 2021
 The fifth ballot win that made RoseAnne Archibald the first ever female national chief of the Assembly of First Nations sealed the Week of Indigenous Women in Canada.  Fittingly, it came only seven days after the wave of soul-searching national angst over residential schools that led to overwrought cancellations of Canada Day in some corners ... Read More »
4 responsesThe case for electric vehicles losing its charge
By Kenneth Green on July 22nd, 2021
 I’m not a climate skeptic. As an environmental scientist/engineer by training, I think climate change is real. But it’s like every other environmental issue: a more-or-less routine engineering challenge, rather than a world-altering disaster justifying the fever-dreams of the radical greens.  I am, however, an electric vehicle skeptic. Or, more broadly, I’m skeptical that electric ... Read More »
12 responsesTrudeau gun grab will be ineffective and expensive
By Franco Terrazzano and Kevin Lacey on July 21st, 2021
 Here we go again.  Ottwa’s budget watchdog is on the trail of another big taxpayer boondoggle in the making with the federal government’s latest gun policy.  First, a Liberal government introduced the gun registry in the 1990s. That was supposed to cost $2 million, but, by the time it was abolished in 2012, the tally ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sustainability, stock and seaweed: changing cattle feed to combat climate change
By John Christy Johnson, Peter Anto Johnson and Austin A. Mardon on July 17th, 2021
Methane production has consistently been under fire as one of the principal contributors for climate change. Taking into consideration the steps and strategies employed by local communities to not only mitigate, but also adapt as outlined by NASA and other climate authorities, there is a growing emphasis on agriculture-based and grassroots solutions (https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/opinion/disasters-and-duck-domestication-adapting-to-climate-change/). Methane is ... Read More »
8 responsesDiscovered graves symbolize failure of policy
By Ken S. Coates - Troy Media on July 16th, 2021
People are mad. Finally! And sadly, belatedly. The discovery of the locations where hundreds of children were buried around abandoned residential school grounds has touched the country in ways that perhaps even the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission did not. People are responding to ... Read More »
5 responsesWe need to safeguard democracy
By Lethbridge Herald on July 15th, 2021
It is beginning to feel like life is returning to some semblance of normal again – albeit a new “normal” where we are all going to have to rethink our approach to life. We have turned several corners, and there is no going back. If the COVID-19 pandemic (which is not over yet, by the ... Read More »
13 responsesDigital health tools an important resource
By Dr. Peter Selby, guest columnist on July 10th, 2021
As the second year of the pandemic is now well underway, it’s clear COVID-19 has altered our day-to-day lives, perhaps no more acutely than how Canadians deliver and receive health care. While stay at home orders have recently been lifted in Ontario, we cannot make light of the ways technology has helped us bridge gaps, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta is coming back stronger than ever
By Nathan Neudorf - MLA Lethbridge East on July 9th, 2021
Summer is here! School’s wrapping up, meetings are slowing down, the Legislature is adjourned, and restrictions are lifting across Alberta – we are set for the best summer ever. This past session we passed many exciting and impactful bills that are either already in effect, or will be soon. I would like to take some ... Read More »
11 responsesWearing a mask a choice to be respected
By Lethbridge Herald Opinion on July 3rd, 2021
Finally, we can all breathe a little easier. With city Council Tuesday repealing its temporary mandatory face covering bylaw, we can start feeling a sense of normalcy again. The struggles and grief COVID-19 have caused all of us in this past year-and-a-half are unspeakable. Mandated masks have caused enormous conflict between those who believe in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Be careful when trying to beat the heat
By Lethbridge Herald Opinion on July 3rd, 2021
The Weather Network calls it an unprecedented heat wave in our history with temperatures shattering records. While B.C., where a new record of 48C was set earlier this week is starting to cool off, we in Southern Alberta aren’t so fortunate. If you dare look at the weather apps on your phone or the daily ... Read More »
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