Opinion

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Canada has always been one of the country's top promoters of alcohol-free motoring, encouraging anyone who partakes of alcoholic beverages to stay well away from the driver's seat.

Pit the environment against profit and money will almost always emerge the winner. Nowhere is that more evident than right here in Alberta, Canada's richest province that is responsible for about half of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions.

Last week's sentencing of an Ontario man for the vicious sexual assault and murder of an eight-year-old girl has once again raised the question of whether the ultimate penalty for such crimes currently allowed under Canadian law adequately condemns s

With last month's sweeping victory over the Wildrose, Liberals and NDP, the newly-minted Alison Redford government is certainly facing a big job and lots of challenges over the next four years.

The other day there was a flyer in my mailbox that explained the benefits of the Netook development: $17.3 million in taxes for the county in 20 years, from an industrial park and a 671-unit housing development.

While some recent moves by the Harper Tories have been anything but universally applauded, last week's announcement that the government plans to make life much tougher for people who recruit for criminal gangs is welcome news.

As reported in the May 1 Gazette, the Netook development team presented its independent Fiscal Impact Analysis and an update to its Water and Wastewater Servicing Strategy to MVC Priorities and Planning on April 25 (“Netook projected to line county's

I am writing this letter on behalf of the students in my school and those in other schools in the district. I am a Grade 10 student attending Bowden Grandview School and currently taking Math 10C.

The triumph of the Alison Redford Tories in the recent provincial election – with the PCs garnering yet another in a long line of comfortable majorities – may not necessarily end up being great news for the new crop of West Central Alberta Wildrose M

With the 2012 provincial election campaign now in the books, the job of guiding the province over the next term will be placed in the hands of the new government.