Opinion

With the abundant snowfall recently I thought again of the tall tales we all heard from our fathers and grandfathers over the years. “I walked to and from school uphill both ways, through 10 feet of snow.

I have been doing a lot of whining lately to friends and family. I am sure I am not alone though. It has been a hard winter. The extreme cold and dumps of snow never seem to end. I’ve been a grouch.

The provincial government has moved forward with plans to make impaired drivers pay ever-higher prices for their law breaking. The province’s new Reduce Cannabis and Alcohol Impaired Driving Act comes into effect this month.

Live from Florida – the sun rises and sets only on the U.S.A. The White House drama outperforms even House of Cards for entertainment value.

While the road to a full economic recovery remains a lengthy one with challenges on the horizon, Alberta has nevertheless finally successfully emerged through the depths of the recession created directly by the catastrophic crash in the price of oil.

If all goes well, the NDP will be able to balance the budget by 2023. That was the message delivered by Finance Minister Joe Ceci and the Rachel Notley government on March 22.

The provincial government has moved forward with plans to make impaired drivers pay ever-higher prices for their law breaking. The province’s new Reduce Cannabis and Alcohol Impaired Driving Act comes into effect this month.

The recent British Columbia provincial budget makes it clear that the government is forging ahead with plans to pursue universal government-subsidized daycare. But B.C. is not the first to go down this path and there are lessons to be learned.

For the tax-and-spend NDP, enough is never enough. That is the underlying message in Finance Minister Joe Ceci’s third provincial budget introduced in the legislature last week. Taxes? Too low. Spending? Too low. Debt? Too low.

Back in 1972, the great standup comic George Carlin unveiled one of his best routines, called The Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say On TV. It was Carlin at his scatological, logical best.