Opinion

Some cultures revere their elders as pillars of family and community as well as great sources of wisdom with a wealth of lifetime experience to draw from. Yet all too many people in the West, it seems, dismiss them as a societal burden.

As Family Violence Prevention Month is recognized in Alberta in November its message that all family members should and must be safe and secure in their daily lives is a year-round message well worth heeding.

In 1913 a Senate report on Western Canada's resources lamented that the oilsands were too far from market. Rugged terrain and distance defied economical pipelines.

The only thing more embarrassing than explaining to the librarian that the reason you want to replace Anne of Green Gables is because your dog ate it, is coming home from Beavers a week later to see a second copy of the beloved tome shredded on the l

I cannot help but wonder what the anti-oil activists who have been working hard to stop the Trans Mountain expansion project are actually accomplishing for themselves.

Some might say it's all about the hokey-pokey. You know, you put your left foot in, and all that. People have been searching for the meaning of life, what it's all about, for, I imagine, as long as there have been people.

A long-dead and largely unlamented tax has recently been rediscovered and embraced by certain people: the death tax, or estate tax.

I must be a homing pigeon. Whenever I am away it takes no time at all for me to long for home. As a child I suffered from homesickness even though I rarely was away for long. When we were kids, mom and dad made home a safe place, warm and cheerful.

As the fight continues to get kids to leave their screens and become more active, researchers have discovered another major hurdle to overcome.