Opinion

When the NDP government came out with its Climate Leadership Plan a couple years ago, one of the more controversial aspects of the plan was to phase out coal power by 2030.

By our count the question on the Tawatinaw Valley Ski Hill has been answered twice in the past 12 months — once by residents and the other time by council.

Although there’s still a little time left for farmers to pull their crops off the field, it’s looking more and more like 2018 will see a repeat of the 2016 harvest. In fact, this year may be worse.

It doesn’t take much to make a positive impact in a person’s life. If you have any doubt this is true, all one has to do is take a look at the Operation Christmas Child program run by Samaritan’s Purse.

Cannabis has been illegal in Canada since 1923. Legalization, set for Oct. 17, has been a long while coming.

Every year we devote several pages to the hard work and dedication of our local volunteer fire departments for Fire Prevention Week, but shouldn’t every week be fire prevention week? This year’s fire prevention section runs from Pages 11-21 in our pr

Last week, many Canadian conservatives were cheering the news that Manitoba was choosing to entirely reject the federal government’s carbon levy program, instead sticking with their “Made-Manitoba Climate and Green Plan.

In 1925, United States President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the first National Fire Prevention Week on Oct. 4-10, 1925. It is observed on the Sunday through Saturday period in which Oct. 9 falls, in commemoration of the Great Chicago Fire.