Opinion

There’s a well-known saying, “If you love something, set it free.

As children weave yellow and pink strips of ribbon around festive baskets, a community wraps blue ribbons around trees to remember fallen officers.

But where there are sad endings there can also be new and bright beginnings. Since the Cold Lake Sun has ceased its weekly print editions, Lakeland This Week and LakelandToday.ca have embarked on a new journey in a new market – the City of Cold Lake.

It’s three years this week since much of our world was stopped in its tracks by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bonnyville is 75 this year, Lac La Biche is 72, St. Paul 87 and Cold Lake 68. Not that old for diamonds in the rough — but it takes billions of years for diamonds to form

Comparing the Oscars to the grocery cart

If Lizzo says it, it must be true. 'If I am shinin’ everybody’s gonna shine.' While songs about heart break and unrequited love will never go out of fashion, it is refreshing to hear music that inspires us to be kinder to ourselves and others.

What ingredients would you grab from the grocery store to make a meal for $20 or less?

Lakeland mayors, reeves and Indigenous leaders want money to hire lobbyists to speak for them

After 20 years of dramatic reductions, Canada’s elderly poverty rate has been rising. This is a worrisome trend that seems to be on the back-burner of government priorities – and the young should not be looking away.