January 8th, 2025

Letters to the Editor

Letter: Kenney ignoring the obvious solution

By Letter to the Editor on August 14th, 2021

Dear editor, My senior conservative friends and I aren’t surprised that Jason Kenney would try to kick out the RCMP for daring to investigate his corrupt party, while we see more and more fines being levied against members by Elections Alberta. None of us, especially our retired RCMP friends, are dumb enough to believe his ... Read More »

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Letter: Take action on climate change, even if you’re not convinced

By Letter to the Editor on August 12th, 2021

Dear editor. On Aug. 5, Larry Samcoe encouraged readers to probe climate change, even if the science is settled. I encourage readers to take climate action, even if they aren’t convinced. That’s because many solutions to climate change lead to happier, and often more profitable lives. Drawdown.org lists 80 ways to reduce greenhouse gases, with ... Read More »

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Letter: Common sense should win out over politics

By Letter to the Editor on August 12th, 2021

Dear Editor, I agree with Kathy Bayer’s Aug. 10 letter to the editor regarding a continued need for virus testing, tracing and mandatory isolation. While I don’t favor any particular political party, I do favor common sense over politics. It doesn’t make any sense to me to stop testing, monitoring, tracing, isolating and reporting during ... Read More »

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Letter: Moore not a credible source on climate science

By Letter to the Editor on August 7th, 2021

In response to Viewpoint: Probing climate change worthwhile, even if ‘science is settled,’ published in the Aug. 5 edition of the News Dear editor, Larry Samcoe will have to do better than to cite discredited authors such as Patrick Moore on the issue of climate change. People like Moore (and Samcoe) are behind the times. ... Read More »

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Letter: No seasonal northward migration and mass influx of grasshoppers from Montana

By Letter to the Editor on August 6th, 2021

Dear editor, An article in the Lethbridge Herald on Aug. 3 said that grasshoppers “move north as the season progresses, meaning that the adults are here in time to lay eggs”, and describes “a lot of grasshoppers showing up in the fall” from Montana. It doesn’t work that way with grasshoppers, although some insects like ... Read More »

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Letter: The era of consequence

By Letter to the Editor on August 6th, 2021

Dear editor, We are entering a new era, I would like to term it as the era of consequence. The pumping metric tons of C02 and methane into the atmosphere has raised the average global temperature by 1 degree Celsius and we are on track to surpass our 1.5 target. The effects are visible: wildfires ... Read More »

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Letter: UCP should cut their own salaries before turning to nurses

By Letter to the Editor on July 17th, 2021

Dear editor, I recently spent five days in Medicine Hat Regional Hospital and can’t believe the UCP government wants to cut nurses wages. I started out in emergency and my care was constant, professional and caring, by both the nurses and the doctors. I then was moved to intensive care and the wonderful care continued. ... Read More »

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Letter: More courage needed to fight climate change

By Letter to the Editor on July 14th, 2021

Dear editor, Clearly there has been discouragingly insufficient political courage and will to properly act upon the cause-and-effect of manmade global warming and climate change. ‘Liberals’ and ‘conservatives’ (etcetera) are overly preoccupied with vociferously criticizing one another for their politics and beliefs, thus diverting attention away from the greatest polluters’ moral and ethical corruption, where ... Read More »

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Letter: Conservative-made problems continue piling up in this province

By Letter to the Editor on July 13th, 2021

Dear editor, In response to John MacLaren’s July 9 letter to the editor Once again we see seniors believing the lies Jason Kenney has been feeding them, and my senior friends and I are getting sick of it. Those of us from the world of finance, who consider ourselves to be conservatives and who had ... Read More »

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Letter: Westerners need to stand up

By Letter to the Editor on July 9th, 2021

Dear editor, Where is all that cheering, laughing, and high fiving coming from? Oh, it’s David Suzuki, Elizabeth May, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Greenpeace, World Wildlife Federation, the Greta Thurnbergs of the world, academics, Trudeau and his entourage rejoicing that the western oil industry, and with it the economies of Alberta and Saskatchewan, have been ... Read More »

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Letter: Reflecting on a Canada Day like no other

By Letter to the Editor on July 7th, 2021

Dear editor, I am a proud Canadian, as I reflect on this great country, on this Canada Day. My maiden name is Van Every. The Van Every’s fought in the Loyalist War and in the 1812 War. There are more Mohawk Van Every’s than the settler branch. I don’t know if there would be a ... Read More »

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