Opinion

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.

Dear Editor, Once again we have celebrated Remembrance Day. It’s always good when a community gets together to remember and honour those people who have given their lives as the price for freedom.

Wildrose leader Brian Jean says now is not the time to implement a carbon tax. He said introducing a carbon tax at this time would affect all consumers and would hurt the thousands of Albertans already laid off due to low oil prices. On Sunday, Nov.

Christmas is a time of giving. As the white stuff begins to fall and the eggnog begins to flow, as Santa Claus sightings become commonplace and wreaths start adorning every doorway, we are reminded of that sentiment nearly everywhere we look.

Dear Editor, Canada; we are an immigrant and a refugee nation.