Opinions
Numbers game: COVID and budget
By Lethbridge Herald Opinion on November 20th, 2020
Curbing the spread of COVID-19 is in your hands. 1. Hand wash and sanitize 2. Hands off! Maintain physical distancing 3. Wear a handy mask 4. Avoid social gatherings. These have been the source of numerous outbreaks locally These are simple messages. But we all have a personal responsibility to do our part to prevent ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Support for chronic pain sufferers
By Lethbridge Herald Opinion on November 19th, 2020
It’s been more than 30 years since I became a statistic – one of the one-in-five Canadians who move from having acute pain to chronic pain. Now, I’m part of a community of more than seven million Canadians in a similar situation. I developed chronic pain after a workplace accident and I now live with ... Read More »
2 responsesStudents should be able to count on caring, acceptance at school
By Herald on November 18th, 2020
Darren Mazutinec Superintendent Westwind School Division Early in teaching my career, as I was preparing my Grade 6 classroom one morning, one of my students showed up a little earlier than expected and pulled up a chair beside my desk. This student looked a little tired and sad, and I asked, “Is everything OK?” The ... Read More »
1 responseTime to invest in energy sector
By Lethbridge Herald Opinion on November 18th, 2020
Imagine a global $800-billion natural gas and oil investment market and the opportunity that represents for Canada. Canadians should be very interested in what it would mean for our country’s economic recovery if we market the strengths of our vast natural gas and oil industry, and capture an increasing share of those billions of investment ... Read More »
2 responsesStop the spread of COVID-19 by taking personal responsibility
By Herald on November 16th, 2020
After weeks of soaring COVID-19 cases, the province was left with little choice when last Thursday it announced new restrictions for several jurisdictions in Alberta, including Lethbridge. While perhaps some measure of blame can be directed at the provincial government for not acting quickly enough, all one can really say in looking at the numbers ... Read More »
2 responsesWe need to make good choices during pandemic
By Lethbridge Herald on November 14th, 2020
After weeks of soaring COVID-19 cases, the province was left with little choice when on Thursday it announced new restrictions for several jurisdictions in Alberta, including Lethbridge. While perhaps some measure of blame can be directed at the provincial government for not acting quickly enough, all one can really say in looking at the numbers ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!An Armenian-Azerbaijani truce
By Lethbridge Herald on November 14th, 2020
This time, the truce will last. The 2,000 Russian troops flying into Armenia this week and fanning out to police the ceasefire lines in Nagorno-Karabakh are being sent there for five years renewable, and neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan will challenge them. Armenia is in shock, but what remains of the Armenian enclave in western Azerbaijan ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Poor child at the government table?
By Lethbridge Herald on November 13th, 2020
Lethbridge has actually received its fair share of funding from the province If you spend any time at all listening to certain political voices on social media, a concerning narrative emerges with regards to our city. A picture is painted of Lethbridge, the poor child, at the government table, fighting for scraps of any remaining ... Read More »
6 responsesTreating addiction crisis on the front lines
By Lethbridge Herald on October 7th, 2020
Stacey Petersen and Kim Turgeon CO-CHAIRS, ALBERTA ADDICTION SERVICE PROVIDERS Dear Albertans, We are the Alberta Addiction Service Providers, representing detox, addiction treatment, harm reduction, peer supportive housing and recovery operators across Alberta. We work on the front lines serving thousands of Albertans day in and day out in their recovery, seeing firsthand the hardship ... Read More »
2 responsesHarm-reduction efforts fill important role, too
By Lethbridge Herald on October 7th, 2020
Jason Laurendeau, Caroline Hodes and Dustin Fox In the middle of multiple pandemics (COVID-19, an opioid crisis, and ongoing systemic racism in policing), it has come to our attention that the publisher and advertising manager for The Herald has made the decision to wade into a complex issue such as supporting drug users with an ... Read More »
7 responsesPatient safety at core of AHS dispatch decisions
By Lethbridge Herald on October 2nd, 2020
Darren Sandbeck ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES Recently AHS Emergency Medical Services (EMS) announced plans to consolidate EMS dispatch services. The work done by four municipally-run satellite sites — Calgary, Lethbridge, Red Deer and the Municipality of Wood Buffalo — will be consolidated into one of the three AHS EMS dispatch sites: the Northern Communications Centre (NCC, ... Read More »
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