Opinion

Are we, as parents, raising a generation of self-entitled kids? That was the thinking behind a Huffington Post article I read recently, which suggested that today’s parents have moved from teaching self-reliance to becoming “hovering helicopter paren

The breakdown of negotiations on transportation between Northern Lights School Division and Lakeland Catholic School District is disappointing but not unexpected given the several months of discussion that have led nowhere.

My mother has always been one of my best friends despite her many declarations that mothers cannot be friends, which works out well in my favour.

Premier Alison Redford made a campaign promise to support education during the past election, but her review and the possible elimination of Provincial Achievement Tests (PAT) at the elementary level would not be a move that supports children's educa

The student strike in Quebec over the proposed tuition hikes by Premier Jean Charest and the Liberal government has entered its 14th week, and since the mayhem began, we have seen students clash with police, public property vandalized, smoke bombs se

Spring has sprung at last.

I'm not the most experienced driver, it's true but even I am aware of some basic fundamentals that some drivers in the area seem to have forgotten. On Friday night, I was driving home from a friend's place near Glendon around midnight.

Everyone can agree that Highway 63 is one that needs to be twinned, but since an April 27 accident that claimed the lives of seven people, calls have become even more strident for action on this infrastructure project.

If there’s one thing the playoffs for any sport reveals to us, it’s this: the amount of passion and emotion running through athletes’ bodies can be paramount, sometimes even reducing them to tears.

One year goes by in a blink of an eye. When that year is a maternity leave, the blink of an eye involves exploding diapers, banging a wall and cursing while an infant screams in the background, beating up monsters at 4 a.m.