Opinion

With just over 40 days until Christmas, the Innisfail and District Christmas Bureau is getting ready for a challenging year. With skyrocketing food prices, many families will not be able to provide gifts or a special meal for their children.

The Arlington Hotel in Red Deer was haunted. That fact was driven home to me when I was fighting the City of Red Deer to save the city's oldest building from the wrecking ball, a fight that was ultimately unsuccessful.

With dozens of walkers dying in vehicle-pedestrian collisions on Alberta roads and streets every year, the province has launched a new awareness campaign aimed at making things safer.

MPs in Ottawa are finally getting something right. They're moving to make Remembrance Day a statutory holiday all across Canada. You didn't know it isn't yet? It's true. Currently, Remembrance Day is a statutory holiday (paid holiday) in all provinces and territories except Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia.

Dear Editor, On behalf of all legion members, we would like to thank you for helping us with a vigil we held on Oct. 25 at the cenotaph in Olds' Centennial Park.

Dear Editor, I am writing in regards to the article written about drivers disobeying road rules regarding local school buses in the Oct. 14 issue. I find it frustrating as a parent that our town council would vote to have our school buses stop using their light system within town limits.

The Progressive Conservative sweep in the four byelections held in Calgary and Edmonton on Oct. 27 is great news for Premier Jim Prentice and his Tory colleagues.

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 Remembrance Day is Nov. 11, a day set aside to remember.

The fatal shooting of a Canadian solider in the very shadow of the House of Commons on Oct. 22 has shocked and saddened Canadians from coast to coast to coast. Cpl.

The Shroud of Turin is a true mystery of the ages.