Opinion

“Now a promise made is a debt unpaid,” wrote Robert Service in his Klondike poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee. I couldn’t help thinking of that admonition as I followed up on a purchase of a toy bulldozer collection for my late father.

Each and every time Premier Rachel Notley listens to Justin Trudeau’s latest monotonous mantra about how he is steadfastly protecting Canadian jobs she must feel decidedly nauseous.

"There's a sucker born every minute," 19th-century showman P.T. Barnum reportedly said. In fact, the notion predates Barnum -- and is just as applicable in the modern era. Con artists take advantage of our default desire to trust.

With the 2019 provincial election campaign just around the corner, the ruling New Democratic Party and the official Opposition United Conservative Party (UCP) are already starting to square off on key issues.

My former home had large sunny windows to the east and to the west. I had a table loaded with plants, lush healthy African violets, an exuberant Christmas cactus that outgrew its pot many times. I also had a plant my sister had left with me.

One wonders what UCP Leader Jason Kenney would be clamouring about if there was an investigation digging into an alleged kamikaze campaign of a rival politician suspected of paying a friendly candidate to smear and attack the main competition so as t

Getting ready for tomorrow means preparing plans today. The Sundre Hospital Futures Committee certainly seems to take that adage seriously.

We find ourselves at a bizarre crossroads in human civilization when diseases once thought permanently relegated to the dustbins of history have not only resurfaced but also even seriously reared their ugly heads.

News hounds examine Gerald Butts and his testimony

Not since the federal election of 1984 have elections mattered so much to the future of Alberta as they do this year.