Opinion

I recently had the pleasure of attending Sundre High School's Showcase 2016, which was held at the Sundre Arts Centre on the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday, May 25 and 26.

My mother always told me that the sky is the most beautiful thing we look at, but never truly see. We lived in a large city where the sky was more of an afterthought.

In the last few weeks there have been two stories in the mainstream media highlighting possible dangers that could befall children if families should dare venture out for risky outings like the zoo or Disney World.

There's a reason developed countries with proper firearm regulations do not experience anywhere near the same levels of gun violence as the U.S., where gun laws are so lax they might as well not even exist.

Comprehending how a benign issue can rile up voters into a furious frenzy while meaningful problems hardly elicit even the mildest reaction is rather perplexing.

My husband and I own and operate a local dairy farm with our two children, Mary-lynn and Piet, who were both “Littles” in Big Brothers Big Sisters Prairies to Peaks Association.

When the late U.S. president Ronald Reagan delivered his first inaugural address in 1981, he said people who declared it was a time of no heroes are ones who just don't know where to look.

Sundre's council found itself last week in the difficult position of deciding to put on hold its plans to provide water and sewage services to the east side.

By tradition, the finance minister buys a new pair of shoes on budget day. Thanks to one key aspect of the 2016 budget, Finance Minister Bill Morneau should have donned running shoes, because good things could start happening fast.