Opinion

My 21-year-old daughter thinks she is Batman.

While Chinook's Edge School Division officials have always prided themselves on ensuring that its students receive their educations in safe and caring schools, a newly-adopted division-wide procedure aimed at making all stakeholders aware of their re

With Canadian airmen now heading to war in Iraq following last week's divisive vote in Parliament, west central Albertans join their fellow Canadians in hoping this new military undertaking will prove less costly in human casualty terms than the recent Afghanistan mission.

With Canadian airmen now heading to war in Iraq following last week's divisive vote in Parliament, west central Albertans join their fellow Canadians in hoping this new military undertaking will prove less costly in human casualty terms than the rece

The battle lines between education and the interim Alberta government have been drawn with the appointment of Gordon Dirks, former Rocky Mountain College president and present executive pastor of Calgary's Centre Street Church, to the ministry of edu

Thank you very much to all those 38 people who took the time to tell us what we are doing well, what we need to work on, and who gave us a grade for our first year in our council chairs.

Although I have never before written a letter to the Olds Albertan regarding any concerns with the paper, I felt compelled to now when I saw the appalling photo that adorned the front of last week's paper.

Editorial Only weeks into his new job, Premier Jim Prentice seems bound and determined to convince one and all that he is a man of action who isn't afraid to make big changes in the way government operates in this province.

After finding out last week that bears are being euthanized because of irresponsible actions by area residents, I was horrified and disappointed.

It has been said by some of the most revered humanists of our recent times that the moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handic