Opinion

Although this is based solely on observation, it seems that lately there has been something of a baby-boom going on in St. Paul.

The 2014 Winter Olympic Games kicked off in Sochi, Russia on Friday morning, and I for one couldn’t be much happier about it. Winter sports help define us as a nation.

For years now, the Bonnyville-Cold Lake region has been booming, with many new families and their children making roots here.

Hello Bonnyville, this week I'll be taking a look at a topic that has really irked me over the past couple of weeks – the conditions at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

If you asked me as a child what I pictured the world to look like in 2014, I’d probably have described you with all sorts of crazy things like rocket boots, underwater cities, and of course flying cars.

On June 1, the Ontario government will raise the province's minimum wage from $10.25 to $11 per hour, matching Nunavut for the highest minimum wage in Canada.

On Jan. 25 the Bonnyville Jr. A Pontiacs hosted over 200 military personnel and family members from 4 Wing Cold Lake for their annual tribute game.

It had been a full eight days since we heard the familiar noises of the iPad and iPhone notifications in our house, and last Thursday, when those sounds came back suddenly one evening, the silliest little smile spread across my three-year-old’s face.

What is the wake-up call that will push drivers to be safer on our area highways? It seems like each week there is another serious motor vehicle collision, many times involving a fatality and serious injuries, yet nothing seems to change.

Syndicated Canmore-area cartoonist Patrick LaMontagne has been gracing our editorial pages for several year. Here, the talented digi-cartoonist shows readers the high-speed process of one of his latest cartoons.