Opinion

I know that Olds has a lot of gardeners who are just getting the bug now to go to work on their gardens. I have food for thought when you decide what to plant. I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses.

Oh, bother! With the weather warming up, black and grizzly bears have begun to rouse from their long winter slumber.

Some migrants and refugees who made the arduous trek to the United States — many at great peril to their lives — have begun to cross over the border into Canada in fear of our southern neighbours' new administration.

Massive multinational media moguls that rake in billions of dollars love nothing more than to bemoan what in reality amount to little more than unfounded prophecies of digital piracy doom.

A fanciful future of flying cars has long evaded our grasp and will most likely continue to do so, yet the potential for driverless vehicles cruising around the roads and highways continues to grow.

Reading the news, it's looking more likely that the provincial government is going to be using taxpayer money to clean up old Alberta oil wells.

Mountain View County and a private company called Rolling Mix Concrete Ltd.

Plans by the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties to convene so-called discussion groups to explore the possibility of a merger could be the first meaningful step on the road to the creation of a new right-wing political party in Alberta.

It has now been six months since the town's ongoing controversy on its leadership first exploded.