Opinion

Our new premier is showing promise for education. Just after winning the PC leadership, Alison Redford restated her promise to return over a hundred million dollars cut from the provincial education budget.

What a Difference a Day Makes! On Monday, Oct. 3, Premier-Designate Alison Redford announced that the fall sitting of the Alberta Legislature would not occur. Rather, the next sitting would be scheduled for some time in the spring of 2012.

To the Editor: On July 14 of this year, our family received the kind of news that everyone wants to avoid, and it involved the dreaded word "cancer." My wife was diagnosed with a brain tumor which, when removed, was found to be cancerous.

Despite concerns that the province's resolution regarding the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range (CLAWR) would divide the riding, it seems the opposite has happened, at least a little bit.

When I first moved to Bonnyville back in March, the loneliness was crushing. Because I could not get a dog, I would wander the plant section of a local grocery store, looking for some sort of living companionship.

Twenty-six years ago, a writer named Elwyn Brooks White – or E. B. White, as he was widely known – died from Alzheimer's disease. Before his death, White wrote both adult and children's literature, including the novel Charlotte's Web.

Alison Redford deserved the big win, announced early Sunday morning, of the Progressive Conservative leadership race, but whether she deserves the problems facing the party is quite another matter.

It was a great day for freedom last week when local MP Brian Storseth brought forward a private member's bill in Ottawa to repeal section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

In the immortal words (lyrics) of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you need.

To the Editor, I thought that our community was a “People Kind Of Place” that would welcome new businesses to make our town grow.