Rural seniors committee a worthwhile initiative

The provincial government has announced the creation of a new committee that will look at ways of keeping more rural seniors in their home communities – benefiting those same communities, in turn, by helping to retain a very valuable human resource...

It's healthy to talk about mental illness

It’s time we open up and talk about mental illness.


The Wildrose advantage

The Wildrose advantage

The Wildrose Advantage is, of course, Leader Danielle Smith, the 40-year-old former broadcaster and business lobbyist.


Wildrose shows it's not ready for prime time

The past week cast an interesting light on two Alberta opposition parties. While the NDP leader pounded the government on...


Railway concept captures region's uniqueness

It would be easy to dismiss the ambitions of Paul Pettypiece’s Forth Junction Heritage Society project for Central Alberta...


Opinion

Bill 26 does have a kind of drunken logic behind it

On the face of it, the province’s new impaired driving legislation, Bill 26, is clearly unjust.