Opinion

The Christmas countdown is on. When this edition hits the streets, there’ll be 41 days to go before Santa comes a-calling. Where does the time fly? Maybe it’s because we had a somewhat abbreviated fall, what with snow on the ground for Halloween.

Mental health issues are not something that can be ignored.

Life is hard. It is something I say often. Why? Because it is true. And that is for people like me — white, middle aged, heterosexual and above the poverty line.

The lack of mental health resources in Athabasca and beyond are taking a tangible toll on our communities. For decades, the issues of mental health have gone unheeded as either unimportant or nonexistent.

Young lives literally are hanging in the balance – and you may not even know it.

The stories of rural Canada deserve to be told and that is what I live for. As a journalist, I have a motto that even the most mundane or innocent looking of stories can have the most fascinating dimensions, if one has the guile to look for them.

On behalf of the Athabasca Healthcare Centre Auxiliary Association, I would like to apologize to the Michelson family for any part our local association may have played in the hurtful oversight in the Advocate article October 31st regarding the Long

What is your opinion on the legislation to legalize marijuana in Canada? What could possibly be the underlying motivation behind the legalization of this intoxicating drug? Marijuana is classified as a drug, mind altering, due to the hallucinating af

Re: Offering bad business Dear editor, Sharon Shaub, you must have had a bad hair day! Never have I even heard such vitriolic and poisonous lies come out of anyone’s mouth, and they’re even put to paper.

It is time Remembrance Day became a national statutory holiday. For the last number of years, around this time, Barrhead Leader editorial staff have proposed that the federal government should make Nov. 11 a national statutory holiday.