Opinion

It's time to put on our thinking caps. As Sundre residents are by now no doubt well aware, the Foothills Lodge that formerly housed about 40 seniors sits vacant and completely unused.

I had trouble sleeping July 24. Around suppertime, as we sat in our backyard with friends enjoying a beautiful day, we were startled by a loud thudding noise.

As Canada looks towards its 150th anniversary, the official Opposition continues to demand a referendum on the governing Liberal Party's campaign pledge to look into electoral reform.

Once upon a time at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in Winnipeg was a tangled and rather unsavoury mess of crumbling old rail company buildings, shacks and warehouses.

When I was a rookie in the newspaper game, this was the time of year when a hard-boiled editor two days past a shower and shave said in his whiskey rasp, “Here's a roll of quarters, go do a story about what two bits can still buy.

How is it that the Town of Innisfail fails to email our May bill due to a technical difficulty and I am penalized $4.

A picture, as we have all heard, is worth a thousand words. Sometimes, there's simply no better way to capture the beauty of the world around us than to take a photograph.