Opinion

Justin Trudeau’s absence from the Maclean’s-Citytv and Munk debates speaks loudly, the former being recently held on Sept. 12 and the latter scheduled for Oct. 1.

It was years — even decades — ago, during a different time and different cultural sensitivities. People change, and their views evolve with the passing of time and greater understanding.

With the fall harvest season now well underway across the district, farm families are keeping very busy with the many, many tasks that necessarily go into making the region’s agriculture industry a success.

The revelation that at least one recently painted over piece of public art was originally paid for by taxpayers should hopefully convince town council to give more serious thought to creating a public art policy.

From the sound of it, Premier Jason Kenney’s cut-a-cop approach to trimming the provincial budget isn’t going over well in rural Alberta. “It’s a money grab,” says Brooks councillor Bill Prentice.

Canadians leave the practice of politics to politicians and politicians leave voting to the voters. Politicians do their best to influence the choice of politicians but voters make it.

On Friday night, École Olds High School held its annual academic awards night. It's a reward for all the hard work students have undertaken — and in the case of Grade 12s, for a whole 12 years of schooling.

This is in support of the letter by Dick Stauffer in the Sept. 10 edition of the Olds Albertan. For the past two years, things seem to have deteriorated in terms of irresponsible spending of public funds and here are some of my thoughts.

Amongst all the facts, figures and recommendations the recently released MacKinnon report came up with regarding Alberta’s financial future there was one simple analogy that summed up the dreadful bloat that’s endemic within our public services.