Opinion

Dear Editor, This winter I have been very frustrated with the parking situation on 51 St. (the block between the town office and the Legion).

At a time when everyone is tightening their belts, Athabasca University is trying to do the same. The institutionís plan to ìgradually shiftî the IT departmentís ìoperational activitiesî ñ i.e.

I will wager that most of us when we think of "refugees " don't picture Europeans as those fleeing their homes and seeking asylum.

Last week, the Pembina Hills Public Schools’ board made a decision that, as one trustee put it, was going to “piss someone off” no matter the outcome.

Albertans are mourning with the passing of former premier, and Edmonton Eskimo Don Getty, who died Feb. 26 in an Edmonton hospital at the age of 82.

Morrill and Verhaeghe have every right to ask council to tell them what that liability is in a public forum. And we, the public, need council to be more forthcoming with that information before they drag us further into this mess.

We each have a picture in our mind of a refugee. Perhaps it is an individual you know personally, or a current media meme, or a historic refugee crisis that resonated with you when you were coming of age.

Property crimes continue to be a problem in Barrhead. The evidence to this statement appears in our weekly RCMP reports and in our bi-weekly court briefs. According to Sgt.

Sometimes in life you just don’t see things coming. For example, when I was going to high school in Red Deer back in the late 1980s, I would have never guessed that the NDP would have ever been able to form a government in Alberta.

If Pembina Hills Public Schools (PHPS) wants to boost enrolment at its community schools, refusing to transport students across attendance-area boundaries on transfer buses seems the wrong way to go about doing it.