Opinion

Well done, Darlana. Two thumbs-up for your intelligent, well-written commentary on DiCaprio and chinooks. (Didsbury Review/Innisfail Province, Feb. 16). I hope many other people see and “get” your message of reason.

I just needed to pass on a thank you to the gentleman who paid for my groceries at the Olds Walmart on Jan. 31. I picked up a few things there and tried to pay with my debit card through my new savings account.

According to the trickle-down theory of economics, the wealthy invest in the economy when barriers, like taxes, are eliminated and the production of goods and services takes place.

Roundabouts are included among the options provided by Alberta Transportation for a pilot project to improve pedestrian safety while maintaining the flow of traffic on Sundre's Main Avenue between the bridges.

Depending on one's ideological and political leanings, two per cent can either mean next to nothing or a whole lot.

Incredibly, but perhaps predictably, the NDP government finds itself once again in another communications disaster all because it had no idea how to handle a mischievous right-wing troublemaker whose sole purpose in life is to get on the nerves of ev

Depending on one's ideological and political leanings, two per cent can either mean next to nothing or a whole lot.

The West Central Wranglers held our public speaking competition on Feb. 4 at the Knee Hill Valley hall. Big thanks go to all our judges including Red Deer County mayor Jim Wood, who also drew the names of our raffle winners.

There's always a slightly unsettling feeling that crawls up the spine when the power suddenly and unexpectedly goes out. One might usually first anxiously wonder what just happened and how long it will take before the lights come back on.

The first cuts at a post mortem of the Harper years have taken the form of journalists' biographies. Most deal with his years in office but some begin when Harper's interest in politics first awakened.