Opinion

After a short six-year hiatus, this fall will mark the return of the exciting, albeit somewhat dreaded, back-to-school campaign in our household.

A new era is upon us. The wheat board monopoly has ended. As of Aug. 1, wheat and barley producers in Western Canada can begin marketing their own grain. The decision has not come without controversy.

Lacrosse has exploded across the Lakeland over the past year and nine players from Bonnyville and Cold Lake have gone on to help the Vermillion Roar, a junior B lacrosse team, capture provincial gold in tier 2 this season.

There is often confusion about what appears in this viewpoint section and how these opinion pages are distinct from the other pages in this newspaper and our news stories.

This summer while I’ve been at work, my husband has been on deck with Daddy duties. The role of a teacher is not always an easy one, but one perk is having at least a month of summer holidays before work beckons again.

To the Editor: You listen, in disgust and disbelief, to reports of break-ins and vandalism happening to others, never thinking that it could happen to you.

To the Editor: I am writing in response to a letter to the editor you published in the paper in relation to MP Brian Storseth from a Matthew Preston, who made the suggestion Storseth is “disengaged.

With the deaths of two horses this past weekend at the chuckwagon races here in town, it's a perfect opportunity to bring up questions of whether the risk of death or injury among the horses is worth the entertainment value of the sport.

Going into my first chuckwagon weekend, I didn't know what to expect. I figured I had been to tons of rodeos and it would pretty much the same. Boy, was I wrong.

Immigration has been and will continue to be an important asset for Canada. With a relatively small population of 30 million over a large land base – and many rural areas such as St.