Opinion

This job isn’t always easy. Sometimes, it seems we reporters can do no right. I immediately assume any call that comes in must be a complaint, for rare is the time that someone calls to say thanks or good job.

What the heck is going on in the Alberta Legislature? Like many other in the province, I was completely taken aback when Danielle Smith and eight other Wildrose MLA's defected and joined the Conservative Party last week. Now while many out there are sorting through the rubble trying to figure out why it happened and what the repercussions will be, I find myself asking a different question: How could they do this?

Reading local children’s letters to Santa for this year’s Christmas Greetings section certainly put a smile on our face and put us in the holiday spirit.

I saw a friend’s most beautifully decorated tree online last year, and heaved a sigh of envy.

Rural hospitals, particularly Elk Point’s, took a beating from the daily media as the Edmonton Journal ran a series of articles last week on the state of expensive, crumbling and supposedly underused rural facilities, comparing them to busy and overr

I'm sure most of you are familiar with the social media trends for causes such as the no-makeup selfie for breast cancer or the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

I’m not going to talk about Bill 10 in this column.

Dear Mayor Moghrabi and Council, On behalf of Active Kids Society as acting chair I am writing this letter in response to public statements made by councillor Nowak - “Active Kids is holding the County ransom”, on the Big Dog Radio on November 26 th

In any other country, life would screech to a halt with the more than 30 cm of snowfall blanketing the streets and plunging temperatures to -30 degrees Celsius the area saw last Friday.

Over the past few months, I’ve visited a few of our local schools specifically to see how teachers and students are using technology in their classrooms. Each of these visits has impressed me.