Opinion

Increasingly frequent and powerful, widespread wildfires are now scorching B.C. and Alberta forests every summer.

Alberta’s conservatives look back with rose-coloured glasses to The Miracle on the Prairies, the election of 1992 when Ralph Klein’s 14-year term in office began. That was when things were “right” with the world, politically speaking.

Mirror image. Those words floated through my mind while I was working. I’m always searching for topics, a starting point to write and expand an idea.

Jason Kenney fox guards the LGBTQ straight-gay alliance henhouse

With the 2019 provincial election race nearing the homestretch, parties on all sides have been making campaign promises on everything from health care to education, from taxes to social programs.

Re: "Leadership a key campaign issue," page 1, March 26 Gazette. What is this Alberta 2019 election about? The Gazette headline of March 26 proposes that "leadership is a key campaign issue." Local party candidates are quoted to that effect.

Journalism and the news industry are at a critical crossroads. It reminds me of the early days of the Internet when downloading free music from file sharing websites such as Napster and Kazaa was a common practice.

With the 2019 provincial election race nearing the homestretch, parties on all sides have been making campaign promises on everything from health care to education, from taxes to social programs.

Lots of things aren’t going Alberta’s way right now. There was the Northern Gateway pipeline to B.C. proposal killed by the federal government, and the Energy East pipeline to New Brunswick killed by Quebec and the feds.

I recently volunteered to erect signs in Olds for a candidate in the upcoming provincial election.