Opinion

Editorial 1-31 Youth tobacco access problem needs solution Anti-smoking groups in Alberta have been working very hard over the past decade to reduce youth tobacco use ñ and to encourage other young people to never take up the habit in the first place

Re: ìTrial underway in Sundre assault caseî by Dan Singleton, Jan. 10.This article was written prematurely, before both sides have been presented.

To Energy Minister Ted Morton, Health Minister Fred Horne, ERCB chairman Dan McFadden, Human Services Minister Dave Hancock:It is respectfully submitted that the Alberta Surface Rights Group request the Government of Alberta to place an immediate mor

I attended the Property Rights Task Force meeting in Olds on Jan. 11 with more than 300 people. The laws that had previous opposition, and had since been defiantly passed, were now being discussed at this meeting.

The recent rash of illegal drug overdose deaths in Alberta highlights a complex and multi-faceted problem facing communities of all sizes, including those right here in West Central Alberta.

Re: ìTrial underway in Sundre assault caseî by Dan Singleton, Jan. 10.C. S. Lewis once wrote: ìI would not condemn a dog on the basis of what I read in the newspapers.î Wise man.

The price of getting into power for the federal Conservatives has produced another blow on their historic right-of-centre social policy roots.

I am writing in regards to your recent article in the Gazette, ìTrial Underway In Sundre Assault Case.î I view this as a very disrespectful and distasteful article since the case is only underway and not even half done.

It would be easy to dismiss the ambitions of Paul Pettypiece's Forth Junction Heritage Society project for Central Alberta as over the top and unachievable. Certainly, the scope of the plan is enormous.

Dear Editor: With the three per cent increase in property tax and water rates I think the council and mayor are dumping increase debts on the backs of the taxpayers.