Opinion

Last week’s Town of St. Paul council meeting raised some issues that in turn ruffled feathers, including minor hockey’s concerns about ice time and questions over whether taxpayers were subsidizing the local airport.

My wife and I first noticed it when our son was about four years old. He just did not want to wear boys clothing. He would get very sad when we made him wear ‘normal boys cloths’ but we made him wear them anyways.

My husband recently told me I was dooming my son to be an outcast even before he started school. “He’s a vegetarian, and he doesn’t play hockey,” he exclaimed, noting that my son’s friends had already been teasing him for this choice.

It was Grade 6 and Valentine’s Day Night. I was probably inside watching Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman or listening to MMMBop on the radio with my Pocahontas sweatshirt and tights on (I kid you not). The doorbell rings and I walk to the door, open it.

There’s one thing Albertans can agree on – Alberta is hurting, and now it’s time for the rest of the country to support the province that has long been Canada’s economic powerhouse.

Lac La Biche POST cartoonist Patrick LaMontagne shows our readers how he creates a Groundhog Day cartoon in time for the Feb 2 annual calendar day prediction.

Intense debate spiked last week over the province’s new guidelines to support learning environments that “respect diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expression.

East Indian people, by and large, are not pet owners.

A bomb was dropped on the Canadian media industry last week and many journalists, including myself, are still struggling come to terms with the destruction.

There’s something about January that makes a person long for a time clock that could either speed up or turn back time, back to the fairy-tale glow of Christmas or forward to frolicking in the warmth of spring sunshine.