Opinion

At long last, the Alberta government is taking responsibility for protecting the province’s boreal woodland caribou populations. Boreal woodland caribou are registered as an endangered species in Canada.

Hello, you might have seen me GPSing my way around the county the past couple of weeks. My name is Jessica and I'm the newest reporter at the Advocate. I come to this little town from Medicine Hat, way down in southern Alberta where I was raised.

Well Athabasca, it’s happening. Town and county councils have approved the new pool project, complete with fitness centre, water slide and lazy river. We’re glad to see the region collaborating to build such a high-class facility.

We journalists have an ethos. We live by rules that keep objectivity in check and prevent us from falling into pits of paranoiac despair. We also have many superstitions, maxims that secretly keep the wheels of news organizations turning.

Just reading about the meeting from June 7, where both councils have given the green light to the pool project. Using the Clark Builders with the 5% contingency fund, we are looking at $16,381,915. Wow.

How much influence should trustees have in the hiring of its employees? That is the question the Pembina Hills Public Schools (PHPS) board of trustees pondered during their May 24 meeting when they discussed the role trustees should have in the inter

In today’s world it is easy to become jaded. With all the news stories about crime, poverty and terrorist attacks, it is easy to forget that there is good in the world. But there is and I was reminded of that last week after I had a turn of bad luck.

The Fort McMurray fires are back in the news thanks to a pair of reports that were critical of the province’s intercommunication between emergency services during last year’s blaze that forced the evacuation of over 90,000 people.

June is graduation time. It’s the month when Grade 12s go off into the world as young adults and start the next chapter in their lives. But lately the behaviour of some students has been less than mature.

We called it.