Opinion

To the Editor, Language has been called the most powerful drug known to humanity. The words we hear and speak can have a distorting effect on our point of view as well as our inner most feelings.

For provincial Wildrose candidate Danielle Smith, it was a cheap shot. For incumbent Premier Alison Redford, it was an embarrassing moment in her push to get re-elected.

Former municipal reeve Robert Richard comments on dialysis promise

The federal budget tabled last week provides a prudent plan in a still unsettled economic environment. It’s a historic budget, one that actually reduces spending, in contrast with the typical trend of increasing government spending.

Since moving to this great province two years ago, I've learned the biggest issues on the forefront of everyone’s minds relate to seniors.

It seems like the provincial election engine has been running for weeks, making Premier Alison Redford's official call to the polls, announced on March 26 with an end date of April 23, a little anticlimactic.

It was back in December when I first heard Mike Daisey perform his monologue “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”.

Spring is always a busy time for my family. We have my older brother Bradley's birthday the end of March and my birthday following three weeks later; plus, somewhere in there is Easter.

Lately I feel a little out of tune with pop culture. Maybe it’s a sign that I’m getting older, or maybe it’s a sign that I’m too busy to pay attention or care, but I often find myself wondering how I can be so clueless about certain things.

Forget the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range deal and the mud slinging between Bonnyville and Cold Lake. Let's let bygones be bygones and move on to working together as friends and neighbours rather than pitted against one another by politics and finances.