Opinion

If you can’t find Margaret-Ann Armour in her office at the University of Alberta, you might very well find her in a school classroom surrounded by kids.

Before he was killed in an airplane crash in 1984, Grant Notley was a New Democrat MLA and party leader widely respected by Albertans of all political stripes.

Michael Ignatieff emerged from a party convention this weekend with his foot slightly off the election brake.

Every year, in early May, something incredible begins to happen in Red Deer.This year, it’s even more incredible for several reasons, not the least being the amount of competition out there for charitable donations.

First they came for the journalists. Then they came for the teachers. Who’s next? Let’s hope it’s the people responsible for Bill 44 because the Alberta government’s proposed changes to human rights legislation make matters worse, not better.

To the City of Calgary transit bus driver who saved a 16-month-old pup from two coyotes out for an easy breakfast Wednesday.

The oilpatch is in the crapper. The Edmonton Journal had a front-page photo of oilfield workers in Nisku holding a trophy, the top of which featured a steel commode, no doubt fashioned by oilfield fabricating equipment.

Large parts of the world reacted to the swine flu outbreak with a typical lack of stoicism.

Universal health care, as it is provided now in Canada, is unsustainable if we consider the changing demographics of baby boomers becoming a tsunami of seniors.

It’s time, my friends, to have a frank talk. It’s time for conservatives to take a long, hard, look at certain issues.