Opinion
10 years later and the city is presenting the same old 2 options, of possible Aquatic Centre locations.

10 years ago the thinking was to build the Aquatic Centre by the recreation centre downtown or by the Michener pool. Committees were struck, consultants hired and time lapsed and nothing changed. The options our city bureaucrats are offering council to consider hasn’t changed.
I have never seen more lack-lustre, vision less proposal options. All our pools will remain within a good walk of each other. They will all be south of the river and east of 40 Ave. One proposal will have it down the road from the Collicutt Centre and the other would have it downtown with traffic issues. The budget means little because there will be other budgets for traffic, lighting, and demolition that won’t be discussed.
The pools are slated for construction in 10 years. They are also planning on opening the land north of 11a for another 25,000 residents, but the pool will be built near current pools on the other side of the city. When they started thinking about the south-east developments, they built the Collicutt Ctr. and 2 high schools and we never looked back.
Now it looks like we may end up with 5 high schools and 2 Aquatic recreational centres along 30 ave.
I could see the city approving the design, but they should table the vote on location because I believe they are too narrowly focused on the immediate time frame. The city once talked about keeping the Westerner downtown, but someone persuasive had the vision to move it away from downtown. We need that person now.
Perhaps they could table this for another council? A new council will be elected in October, 10 months away for something being built in 10 years.
I have been lobbying to build the Aquatic Centre on Hazlett Lake. Lethbridge built facilities on Henderson Lake, in fact they made Henderson Lake and now they have a widely popular tourist attraction in Henderson Lake Park.
Our Hazlett Lake is visible to QE2 and 11A, surrounded by farmland. The city wants to develop it. Why not replicate the Collicutt growth starter.
Why is it, our city has such limited vision? Why must everything be built downtown? Can you imagine if they had kept the westerner grounds downtown?
Am I the only one that sees tourism potential, stay-cation potential, growth potential? Anyone?
Catherine Herridge
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Court attempts to halt Trump deportations, El Salvador president says ‘too late’

From The Center Square
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A class action lawsuit was filed on Saturday against the Trump administration after President Donald Trump signed an executive order invoking the Enemy Aliens Act to target, arrest and remove violent Venezuelan prison gang members, Tren de Aragua (TdA), from the U.S.
The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation on behalf of five Venezuelans illegally in the country who were detained in Texas and New York. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
On Saturday, nearly 300 violent illegal foreign nationals were removed from the U.S. and arrived in El Salvador with the cooperation of El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele after reaching an agreement with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“The first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country,” Bukele said in a post on X. “They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).”
El Salvador also received 23 MS-13 gang members from the U.S. who were wanted by Salvadoran authorities, Bukele said. They include two ringleaders, one of whom “is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure.” Those sent to El Salvador by the U.S. will help Bukele’s government “finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators and sponsors.
“As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action. May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States,” he said.
The U.S. government is paying a small fee to detain them, Bukele said, and the prison is also making money because it requires inmates to work. These additional inmates, “combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable,” he said, noting that it costs $200 million a year to maintain.
In response, Rubio thanked Bukele saying, “El Salvador has agreed to hold the violent criminals “in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars. President Nayib Bukele is not only the strongest security leader in our region, he’s also a great friend of the U.S.”
In an emergency hearing held on Saturday, a federal judge ruled that deportations of violent Venezuelans be temporarily halted and those who were illegally in the country and already removed be returned. The ACLU said the order blocked the administration “from deporting anyone under the Alien Enemies Act while the case proceeds. Flights carrying Venezuelan immigrants the DHS attempted to deport have been ordered to turn around and return to the U.S.”
A U.S. federal judge has no jurisdiction over foreign governments.
In response, Bukele posted on X, “Oopsie … Too late,” with a laughing emoji.
Bukele also posted videos and pictures of them arriving in El Salvador in handcuffs. The video shows them being met by El Salvadoran military wearing riot gear and transported in armored vehicles to CECOT. The videos depict El Salvadoran officials lifting up their shirts to show tattoos of gang member affiliation, officials shaving the heads of kneeling inmates and their admittance as CECOT inmates.
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
The United States will pay a very low fee for them,… pic.twitter.com/tfsi8cgpD6
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) March 16, 2025
Cooperation between the U.S. and El Salvador expanded under Trump and Rubio, representing a reversal of Biden administration policy that used taxpayer money and planes to transport illegal foreign nationals into the U.S.
Trump has been aggressively targeting of TdA after a record more than 1 million Venezuelans illegally entered the U.S. under the Biden administration, including TdA members expanding operations in at least 22 states, The Center Square first reported.
Under the Trump administration, Venezuelan repatriation flights also began, paid for by the Venezuelan government, negotiated by the Trump administration, The Center Square reported.
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