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Editorial

Message to essential service workers

Posted on June 18, 2020

Dear Editor, In honour of National Public Service Week June 14-20, this message is to all our essential service workers, front-line responders, health care workers… Read More »

A hope that one day society will get things right

Posted on June 11, 2020

Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” That thought is… Read More »

We must remain vigilant as we re-open

Posted on June 4, 2020

The “relaunch” in Alberta from the most strict of pandemic controls is no doubt welcome, but shouldn’t be considered as the beginning of the end,… Read More »

Rural communities hit hard by COVID-19

Posted on May 28, 2020

This is an op-ed written by Senator Pamela Wallin. Our small towns and rural communities across Canada are experiencing fallout from COVID-19 in unique and… Read More »

Internet giants should pay their share

Posted on May 21, 2020

This is an op-ed written by News Media Canada chair Bob Cox. Newspapers have never been so loved — and never been so neglected. The… Read More »

Supporting local business key during pandemic

Posted on May 14, 2020

The full severity of the downturn in the economy both in the southern region and the entire province of Alberta is hard to calculate at… Read More »

Brooks needs our support during COVID pandemic

Posted on May 7, 2020

Doing the right thing can be hard. Knowing what that right thing is can be difficult, or, at the very least, very difficult to admit.… Read More »

War Amps remember Holland’s liberation

Posted on May 7, 2020

Dear Editor, This May, we remember the Canadians who sacrificed life and limb to help liberate the Netherlands 75 years ago. I had the privilege… Read More »

Change after PM’s wife tests positive for COVID-19

Posted on April 30, 2020

More than two months after Canada knew the ravages of COVID-19 in China, we continued to hear from Canadian officials that the risk was low… Read More »

What other information is being withheld?

Posted on April 23, 2020

An unprecedented influx of news, at every level of government, has revealed some stars and some very serious flaws. Alberta has been recognized as a… Read More »

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