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Every year, volunteers from local emergency services departments make a series of PARTY (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth) program presentations to Grade 9 students in the area outlining the importance of making safe choices — and the

One can’t help but be nervous when Environment Canada says it won’t reveal what, if any, plans it has for the Meanook Biological Research Station the University of Alberta is vacating.

Pink is a common colour in February, though it isn’t always in honour of Valentine’s Day. With the annual Hair Massacure in Edmonton event swiftly approaching, the amount of pink-haired people popping up in Barrhead is growing.

With sixteen Royal Canadian Legions in our riding of Yellowhead, we have many veterans in our communities who deserve our thanks and respect every time we see them.

The exodus of Liquidation World from the Capri Centre Mall (part of a Canada-wide shutdown) is the most recent visible example of a business closing its doors, but it’s by no means the only one.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. So goes a Greek proverb that rings as true here and now as it ever has.

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Just last week in the House of Commons, your government introduced a piece of legislation that I have been anticipating for quite some time now.

Dear Editor, I agree this world is suffering great damage because of the human race. I don’t know where you get your information from but mine comes from the Bible.

Much is often made of how slowly the wheels of justice seem to turn. But it’s the slow-turning wheels of democracy that should give us pause this week — and the week after, and perhaps even seven months down the road.