Opinion

A job is a job whether a person works in manufacturing, an office, retail or in agriculture and workers deserve the same rights and protections. And it seems the Alberta government agrees. On Dec.

It has only been a little over six weeks now since Justin Trudeau became our country’s 42nd prime minister.

Dear Editor, In this day and age of reality show people swaps, I propose to do the following swap: a Rachel and Ruth Swap.

You’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t been distracted while driving, if for no other reason than because somewhere along the way we’ve all been conditioned to check our cellphone every time it dings.

Tuesday’s $2.2 million lease/sale of the Tawatinaw Valley Ski Hill by Westlock County to DK Consulting has sparked an ongoing debate in our newsroom, which we’re sure is playing out in coffee shops around Westlock today.

On Friday, Dec. 4, RCMP across nation participated in the seventh annual National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day. The event, if you can call it that, saw officers conduct hundreds of checkstops targeting drunk and drug-affected drivers.

It’s hard to believe, but to misquote a popular TV show and novel series: Christmas is coming. Along with everything else that comes in December, there also tends to be an uptick in charity work. Not that there’s a problem with that.

Following a string of commercial property break-ins in Barrhead over the last couple of weeks, to the uninitiated it might almost feel like the local criminal element has switched gears and are now going after ‘harder’ targets like downtown businesse

Sometimes you have to have faith. Faith in the system and as Mr. Spock says in Star Trek VI ‘faith that the universe will unfold as it should.

Dear Editor, 1. The government wants to create a separate bureaucracy that will create city jobs to audit/govern farmers and ranchers’ work on a daily basis. Essentially a job creation program for city workers.