Opinion

Dear Editor, People think “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is encouraging bad behaviour. That’s nothing. I am still emotionally scarred by songs and stories told to me as a child. There was a baby blown out of a tree.

Dear Editor, The Federal Liberals should sit up and take heed of what Imperial Oil CEO, Rich Kruger has to say about Canada’s competitiveness and regulatory uncertainty in our energy sector investments.

One of my favourite television shows when I was growing up was Emergency.

It is time for the Town of Barrhead and County of Barrhead to have a serious discussion about enacting a cannabis consumption bylaw. It is something we asked for this summer and we are still waiting.

Dear Editor, I want to thank Kevin Berger for his two columns engaging with the issue of Alberta Education’s attempt to force all Albertan schools to have GSA policies compliant with the government’s ideology (Nov. 20 and Dec. 4 Barrhead Leader).

With a looming spring provincial election, voters are splintering off into their preferred camps, most of which seem to be on one side of the political spectrum or the other.

One of the press releases that caught my attention this week was a statement by Westlock-St. Paul MP Arnold Viersen, who spoke at a “Support Canadian Pipelines” rally in Slave Lake on Jan. 6.

Should the town and county each have an emergency management plan? That is the question we are asking ourselves after attending the Town of Barrhead council meeting on Jan. 7 Our answer is no.

The Athabasca Advocate is a gemstone that I want to help polish, and know that we can make it shine brighter by shedding new light into further reaches of our community of readership.