Opinion

It's been a wild week for crude oil prices and, as always in periods of dramatic price gyrations, the inevitable question comes up: where are oil prices going? With West Texas Intermediate (WTI) hitting US$100 per barrel this week on the North Americ

In 2010, seven provinces increased the minimum wage. An eighth province, British Columbia, is likely to do so later this year.

With new and improved Internet communication devices coming into common use seemingly every other day, the use of the web in everyday life has never been more widespread in communities everywhere.

Canadians should be concerned that the Harper government's perimeter security talks with the United States might leave Canada trapped inside a U.S.-dominated "Fortress North America.

It all happened so fast. Even before my birthday, a letter from Service Canada stated, “Your Canada Pension Plan Retirement Pension has been approved.

Last spring, members of our premier’s cabinet visited communities across the province to hear directly from Albertans. The tours were so successful that we decided to repeat the experience again this winter.

While it shouldn’t surprise anyone to hear the Stelmach Tories calling their 2011 provincial budget a good balance between fiscal responsibility and public service, the opposition parties have been equally quick to call it a bad plan that promises lo

We see this week that household debt is 150 per cent of income and are urged to do more financial planning. But maybe we are unable to meet our costs or save because there's something government could do that it is not doing.

After nearly four years of relative labour peace between the Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA) and the provincial education ministry, it appears the government expects teachers to go voluntary where MLAs are too fearful to tread and turn down guara

Doug Horner's declaration that he will seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives is good news for Alberta as a whole.