Opinion

There's no doubt that 2015-16 was a bad year for Alberta's public finances. And with the release of the provincial government's 2015-16 annual report, we now know just how bad it was.

With the provincewide economy still battered with no appreciable recovery in sight, Central Alberta, including Innisfail, needs some days when a piece of good economic news will at least give hope for better days ahead.

Although Sundre's commercial vacancy rates are relatively very low, many businesses are still struggling to make ends meet. Many factors have led to a very tough market.

Where is the line drawn between choice and coercion? At what point is a person's decision the result of free will as opposed to a lifetime of indoctrination? Many husbands in Iran recently launched a social media campaign to express solidarity with t

Earlier, the Albertan ran a letter to the editor from a resident who expressed disappointment that mementos were no longer allowed on grave stones at the Olds Cemetery.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist and youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate, once asked of women to be brave when noting not everyone can succeed when half are held back.

What makes Trump frightening is not his consistent repetition of easily disproven claims as well as his complete disregard — nay, outright disdain — for any or all decorum.

Thank you Premier Notley for your letter (Innisfail Province Aug. 9) about NDP government's management of our taxes and budgetary spending.

The Liberal government does not seem to be taking too seriously its promise to regulate and legalize marijuana. Sure, the federal party is looking at ways to reform obsolete and arguably draconian drug laws.