Opinion

To be honest, this column started off, at least in my head, as a story about Kirstie Alley. I like to occasionally write about stars, but not the big superstar ones because that's too easy and not real exciting.

At the end of January, in its annual assessment the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set its doomsday clock at two minutes to midnight.

With the 2019 provincial election campaign right around the corner, key challenges facing the province are starting to come into focus.

Re: “Support of public consultations,” page 20, Feb. 5 Gazette. As a longtime resident of the West Country, I feel the need to respond to Mr. Thatcher’s bizarre personal attacks on MLA Jason Nixon.

One of the oft-heard criticisms from detractors of the proposed Bighorn Country is that it is rushed and cannot happen outside the process of the North Saskatchewan Regional Plan (NSRP).

Our province cannot find the path to prosperity by freezing public spending, as UCP Leader Jason Kenney is calling for.

Conservative parties in this country have a long track record over the past few decades of making claims that only they have the enlightened financial stewardship to eliminate deficit spending and start to repay the national debt.

Well, that was a party! Thank you all for your help and support with the MNP Canada Games Torch Relay event in Olds on Jan. 31.

Well, it was good while it lasted. We've finally been hit with the kind of bone-chilling deep freeze that previously gripped a good chunk of Central and Eastern Canada, not to mention most of the U.S.

With new industrial businesses about to become operational, Sundre is set for an employment explosion. Developing a quality workforce and recruiting working-aged people is going to be essential to ensure the sustained success of our area economy.