Opinion

Tough new federal legislation coming into force this month to protect Canada young people from sex crimes marks a important step forward for communities everywhere, including right here in West Central Alberta.

During the last provincial election Premier Alison Redford was a worrisome force for traditional right-wing ideologues. She was even labeled “leftie” by one national publication.

Mountain View Publishing’s managing editor Lea Smaldon shattered her ankle, August 12. One would think that Alberta’s annual $16 billion health care budget would react. It didn’t.

Mr. Ritz and Mr. Harper want to tell farmers that they have installed a new grain marketing future after Aug. 1, 2012 when the Canadian Wheat Board's single desk selling is eliminated.

Re: Letter to the editor headlined “Fibre to the Premise laudable...”, by Bruce Waldie, page 6 of the July 31 edition of the Olds Albertan. The letter by Mr.

This month scientists from all across Canada held a funeral march on Parliament Hill for the “death of evidence.

In three words: disappointed, shocked and uncertain … that is how we would describe our reaction to council's decision to give third and final reading/approval to its new Municipal Development Plan (MDP) on July 18 despite its stated intention of con

Dear Premier Redford,The recent series of major pipeline spills in the province has raised serious concerns for all Albertans about the integrity and oversight of the more than 300,000 kilometres of oil and gas pipelines that criss-cross the province

Recently announced plans by the Redford Tories to tour the province this summer in an effort to gather public input into the future of the health-care system have the potential to be a very worthwhile undertaking.

While most, if not all, law-abiding Albertans are probably in favour of more being done to reduce drunk driving in the province – and the injuries and deaths that go along with it – whether new alcohol limits coming into effect September 1 are the an