Opinion

The operators of Potters Hands, who are reaching out once again to help the needy in Red Deer.

The lull in economic growth has created a rare opportunity to manage future expansion in Central Alberta.

Conservationists have good reason to be nervous about the province’s planned announcement next week of its long-awaited parks plan.

Being a hockey fan at this time of year is a lot like reading headlines about economic turmoil.

About 100 days ago, Canada’s federal Liberals appeared to be making progress.They’d just dumped unpopular party leader Stephane Dion and replaced him with a slightly more charismatic egghead, Michael Ignatieff.

To John Jones, the technical adviser to the ethics committee of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, who quit Thursday over controversial corporate sponsorship of the cops’ annual conference last year.

“We want to be in (the new UN climate pact), we want to be pragmatic, we want to look at the science,” said Jonathan Pershing, the head of the U.S. delegation, during the talks on cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Bonn last week.

A couple of summers ago, we hosted a young Israeli couple. It was hilarious to see these two, straight from their compulsory army service – where they had learned many survival skills to find themselves “lost in the Canadian woods” with no cellphone coverage.

Airline analysts have speculated for months about the possibility of Air Canada filing for bankruptcy protection.

Shocking, isn’t it? The Alberta government — the richest government in all the land — is running a deficit.