Opinion

Barrhead’s skateboard park is highly valued by local youth. Dozens of skateboarders, bikers, even rollerbladers utilize the equipment each year, spending their summers practicing their jumps and tricks and spending time with peers.

Dear Editor, Last Friday I had the pleasure of having a conversation with long-time residents of the Fort Assiniboine area Roy &Marg Thompson. We were downstairs at the Fort Legion during wing night and Roy began to tell me one of his stories.

Dear Editor, I received a phone call on April 3, on my caller I.D. it showed WOODLD CNTY 780-584-3728. Initially I presumed it was a call from my local county office.

Dear Editor, Recent public debate has been transpiring across the province around Alberta Education’s curriculum redesign.

There is no doubt the Alberta 55 Plus Summer Games last summer had a profoundly positive impact on the host communities — and the specific benefits have been many.

The Advocate’s discovery that Athabasca County council timesheet discrepancies are more widespread than those initially noticed in Jack Dowhaluk’s timesheets raises a few questions: namely, who should be responsible for ensuring councillors are billi

There is a palpable sense of relief among swimming pool supporters following the Barrhead County plebiscite on March 24. Of the 1,051 who voted on the County’s commitment of up to $5m towards the project, 643, or 61 per cent, said “yes.

After managing to contract some kind of illness for the third time in 2014, I felt more than qualified to write a poem on the hardships and tribulations of the common cold. *** Your eyes can barely open, You can sense there’s something off.

It seems it was only a matter of time before the other shoe dropped.

Will Alison Redford’s resignation as premier be enough to stave off the opposition and return the ruling Tory dynasty to power in 2016? It’s probably too soon to say for sure, but in the short-term it was without a doubt the right decision.