Opinion

Every small to medium sized community wants – and needs – people to shop in their local stores, especially around holiday time.

It isn’t always easy to reconcile this region’s primary industry, agriculture, with the increased emphasis on residential development. That’s why it’s so critically important to have these documents in place and appropriately enforced.

When reporting the news of the week, it can sometimes seem like the coverage of what’s perceived as a negative story outweighs what’s perceived as a positive story, and in a sense that’s true, but it doesn’t mean positive things aren’t going on.

There can never be enough fundraisers or awareness campaigns about the numerous, and varied, types of cancer.

Remembrance Day, a national day of remembrance and mourning, was first observed in 1919 throughout the British Commonwealth as a way to honour the more then 60,000 Canadians who died in World War I for the service to their country.

Growing up in a small town I can relate to the various names given to locations, turns, or even roads in general that are given by those who live in the area.

There’s an aspect of Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, that we often overlook and sometimes take for granted.

This week a headline broke out in the Toronto Star: “New terror laws must respect privacy, watchdogs warn federal government.” After the attack on Ottawa, Canada is looking at revising it’s laws regarding terrorism.

They say everybody has a skeleton in their closet. The problem is that not everyone knows what that skeleton is. At least that was the case for Jaqueline Laurent-Auger.

One has to commend the Athabasca Pacers football team for fighting through the trials and pains of practically rebuilding an entire program this season and coming so close to reaching the second round of the playoffs.