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No easy answer

No easy answer

Sometimes there is no right thing to do.
Meeting format is important

Meeting format is important

Some people may question why Woodlands County councillors are giving so much time and effort in deciding when and where they meet. Not me.
Tough decisions

Tough decisions

Westlock County’s financial troubles are well-documented, but to put it in such stark terms like deputy reeve Brian Coleman did during council’s last meeting, calling it a “financial crisis,” is a new and somewhat concerning development.
If it ain’t broke

If it ain’t broke

It’s been over three years since Bill 6, the Enhanced Protection for Farmworkers Act, came into effect in Alberta.
If you do the crime, you deserve the fine

If you do the crime, you deserve the fine

When did being caught for breaking the law become a cash grab? Earlier this month, Alberta Transportation Minister Brian Mason said the province is taking a second look at how law enforcement agencies and municipalities use photo radar.
March Lion

March Lion

Trudeau convoy

Trudeau convoy

A looming problem

A looming problem

Anti-vaxxers — people who choose not to vaccinate themselves or their children against communicable diseases — have been increasingly in the spotlight in 2019, owing largely to a measles outbreak in the state of Washington.
Here we go again

Here we go again

In an editorial in April 2017, we said County of Barrhead councillors needed to decide where the line is when determining who to grant funding requests to.
Survey thoughts

Survey thoughts

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.
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