Opinion

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.

Just when everyone thought it was safe to talk about the pool, it seems there still may be some animosity between Barrhead town council and the county council regarding the subject. At least if you take Tuesday, Feb.

Being Canadian is something we should be proud of. However, people tend to focus more on the negatives than the positives, and in doing so, manage to blind themselves to the more important ‘big’ picture. Take, for example, our current fiscal woes.

Dear Editor, We live in a world where there is a lot of talk about right and wrong, good and evil and judging.

You hear a lot of talk about people doing what's "best " for the Town of Athabasca. What the heck do they mean?

Over the past couple of weeks, the Leader has received several letters that have either been unsigned or in such a state that it has been difficult deciphering their intended meaning.