Opinion

Each year, conversations around the veracity of diploma exams pop up, and not just in educational circles.

By now, news of Rebel Media reporter David Menzies’s Jan. 9 arrest in Richmond Hill, Ont. has likely reached many of our readers, as news tends to do.

Chances are this isn’t the first opinion column you’ve read on the importance of voting, and it almost certainly won’t the last. The Town of Westlock is hosting its municipal byelection Jan.

Reinvention is overrated, try self-compassion instead

It’s not the cure for cancer. Neither is it a supervirus that will kill us all. Reaction to the reorganization of health care delivery in Alberta announced by Premier Danielle Smith last week has tended towards the latter.

There’s been a lot said (and written) about winter almost being here — Halloween is over and done with, and that inevitably means the slow onslaught of Christmas cheer you either love or hate.

One source you can count on in this scary new world is your community newspaper. We employ professional journalists with deep experience and connections to the communities that we serve. Just as importantly, we’re visible in our communities, which makes us accountable and accessible to you, the reader.

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'If improving safety for children and increasing the quality of Alberta’s already great system works against the mandate of the ATA, then the minister’s point has been made for her.'