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Editorial & Opinion

Letter: Alberta Covid weather forecast for May 4th, 2021

Ninety per cent chance of further restrictions this afternoon, with a 60% chance of losing your ability to get a haircut by midnight, and a 10% chance of an essential services drought by Friday, depending on today’s case count. […]

Editorial & Opinion

Letter: re funding childcare and the Kenney government concern with the federal plan

Kenney is wise to hesitate about the federal childcare plan. It is costly but even if the money is doable,  is tilted to only one care style- daycare. It is not really universal and not even accurately labelled childcare since it ignores parent at home, grandma, sitter, nanny, parents who tag-team, work-at-home parents. […]

Columns

Guest Column: God’s 5 Cent Nickel?  

In 1939 I was 5-years-old, sent from Edmonton with my three older brothers to live on a farm near Morinville owned by my widowed Grandmother Ida Gibeault and managed by her 17-year-old son, our Uncle Ivan Gibeault. It was depression and wartime. […]

Obituaries

Obituary Notice: Scott Campbell

Scott, our son, brother, nephew, cousin, best friend, and ultimately, our biggest hero, passed away on April 10th during a brief and intense spring blizzard, which arose in the late afternoon and fell as evening set in. […]

Local News

Homeland Housing building new office at former school location

Homeland Housing will be moving into the building that was formerly known as the Yellow School. At its regular meeting, Town Council approved a development permit for a change of use and major renovation of the existing building at 10021 101 Avenue. […]