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Olympics were a unifying moment |
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Written by Byron Lee
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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Curbing the party bus? |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
News from Calgary this week reveals that the city is working with the province on hammering out better regulations for party buses, the sometimes luxurious coaches that shuttle people to special events, pub crawls, bachelor parties and weddings, or wherever they want to go.
The ability to rent a party on wheels has become a popular pastime for many folks, but increasingly so for teenagers who often use them for graduation nights, birthday parties and other events — not just in Calgary, but in every major city of the province.
Lethbridge is no exception, as Herald readers learned in early February when we published two stories related to local party buses. The stories came about after a concerned mother contacted the newspaper saying she wanted something done to prevent her underage daughter from drinking, taking drugs and even having sex on the buses.
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Digging below the surface |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
If the time was ever right for Lethbridge to deal with its trash in a progressive way — rather than just dig a bigger hole — this is it. City council earlier this week gave the go-ahead to the city’s waste and recycling department to begin preparing a $700,000 Landfill Master Plan. The plan will not only guide the facility’s short-term expansion but also ensure it adapts to new waste disposal technologies for decades into the future. It’s anticipated that as things currently stand, the landfill is expected to reach capacity within the next 10-12 years.
Hopefully, the city will seize this opportunity to not only provide long-range planning for disposing of our trash well into the future, but reducing it.
And if that isn’t a key component of this initiative — and there’s no real indication it is — citizens should demand it. Public consultations through a series of open houses are expected to be held in about six months time.
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Alberta needs to step it up |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
The choices are clear. Should Alberta train its own young people to fill our economy’s needs? Should we count on immigrants and guest workers to fill those jobs, instead? Or should we watch those jobs “head south” or move overseas?
The answer should be obvious. We have the expertise and the facilities, right here in Lethbridge and across the province, and we have plenty of ambitious young people who could earn those positions in our ever-changing economy.
And we certainly have the need. Seven million Canadian baby boomers will be retiring over the next two decades — some are already leaving the workforce — and their jobs must be filled by people who are qualified to step in.
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Anthem issue fittingly a non-issue |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
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While the Tories flip-flopped and tried to put the stopper back in the bottle, it appears the genie may have already escaped when it comes to thoughts that our national anthem is fair game for change when it comes to political correctness. It may not have attracted the same attention as the deficit cutting efforts to come in the next day’s federal budget, but in her Throne Speech last week Gov. Gen Michaelle Jean announced out of the blue that the federal government was proposing a re-examination of the gender specific lyrics of our national anthem. The line in “O Canada” of concern? The third line, which reads, “True patriot love in all thy sons command.” Perhaps spawned by the multitude of occasions where our anthem was sung at Olympic medal ceremonies — and with the majority of those medalists being women — a gender neutral version was apparently first suggested by a woman senator.
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