Opinion

Last week, local policy makers were challenged to walk in somebody else’s shoes by the Westlock Accessibility Coalition. “We get a lot of people come before council, and I often hear ‘I think that’s unacceptable.’ I mean, hello Captain Obvious.

Kevin Berger – Leader Staff Last week, the Alberta government announced the creation of a new expert panel to study the economic impacts of raising the minimum wage from $10.20 in 2015 to $15 per hour in 2018.

What does a person do when they have to go out of town for a medical appointment? That is the question Town of Barrhead councillors are going to ask Alberta’s Municipal Affairs minister Kaycee Madu as well as other neighbouring municipalities to help

Dear Editor, We were very disappointed to hear about the UCP government’s decision to temporarily cut library funding by 50 per cent.

From Grade 3 to Grade 9, I grew up on an apple orchard in Creston, B.C. On one side of our orchard was my grandmother’s orchard, which in addition to having apples, sported a large number of soft fruits, such as peaches, apricots, plums and cherries.

The subject of library funding caused a bit of a stir last week after CBC and Global reported that half of the provincial grant that normally goes to libraries had been frozen until the release of the 2019 budget.

Kevin Berger – Leader Staff Two items in this week’s RCMP Report about residents being injured while confronting thieves reminds me of a rural crime forum I attended in Lac La Biche.

Everybody loves a parade. It’s an often-used phrase that no one knows where it came from but one that often rings true, most people do love a parade. And if you change the worde parade to fair the phrase is equally true — most people do love a fair.