Columns

National Column: There is no ‘best’ when it comes to death

It’s not Brexit, really, that Brits are talking about down at the pub. It’s the baby.

Because the life of one very sick infant is a common denominator, a horror that can strike any family. More morally confounding, at least in the moment, than the great befuddlement of disentangling from Europe and how much that’s going to cost.
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Local News

Class of 1997 planning for 20-year High School reunion

When the Morinville Community High School Class of 1997 walked across the stage to accept their diplomas in June of that year, I’ll Be Missing You by Puff Daddy was on the Billboard Top 100 charts, and Barbie Girl was something you either danced to or were annoyed by.
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Local News

Talk of the Town

Above: Legal held its annual Fete au Village festival over the weekend, complete with the little red train to start […]

Local News

The Big Yes: Jerry Kaup running again

Sturgeon County Division 4 Councillor Jerry Kaup said, “The Big Yes” that he is running again.

His love for the County and its future and all of the people asking him to run again are some of the reasons he is throwing his hat back in for re-election as Division 4 Councillor. […]

Columns

National Column: What about royal transgressions?

Is there a statute of limitations on statues?

Do personalities of the past deserve amnesties after the fact, forgiving their transgressions while sanitizing their triumphs? Or must our founders be held to account, forcing their followers to admit that historical legacies are subject to latter day judgments? […]

Columns

National Column: Trudeau plays it safe with playlist

Justin Trudeau is having a rough summer. It turns out that a lot of Canadians aren’t thrilled about the federal government’s multimillion-dollar settlement payout to former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, arguably the only public face in the nation more handsome than the prime minister’s. (Say what you want about Khadr, but he’s got great bone structure.) […]

Editorial & Opinion

Editorial: It’s time for a curfew in Morinville…

The recent rash of vandalism in Rotary Park and thefts from the Midstream Support Society had many people shaking their digital fists at “those damned kids” and their idle ways. Although there is no evidence as to the age of the culprits, the finger was immediately wagged at teens. Regardless of the age, the bad behaviour has some residents thinking – what’s the rest of the summer going to be like for property crimes?
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Columns

National Column: President has given premiers fresh purpose

Premiers rarely get much attention or traction when they meet every year to save the country from itself.

This week may be different, because the premiers have seen the enemy – and it is no longer just ourselves. Now there’s Donald Trump. […]

Local News

Mixed commercial and industrial development ASP gets first reading

Council has unanimously passed First Reading of a new Area Structure Plan for Coal Creek ahead of a public hearing in August. The bylaw would allow the development of a commercial and business industrial development, focusing on “light industrial activities” according to the ASP. […]