Opinion

Massive multinational media moguls that rake in billions of dollars love nothing more than to bemoan what in reality amount to little more than unfounded prophecies of digital piracy doom.

A fanciful future of flying cars has long evaded our grasp and will most likely continue to do so, yet the potential for driverless vehicles cruising around the roads and highways continues to grow.

Reading the news, it's looking more likely that the provincial government is going to be using taxpayer money to clean up old Alberta oil wells.

Mountain View County and a private company called Rolling Mix Concrete Ltd.

Plans by the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties to convene so-called discussion groups to explore the possibility of a merger could be the first meaningful step on the road to the creation of a new right-wing political party in Alberta.

It has now been six months since the town's ongoing controversy on its leadership first exploded.

On March 14, the following letter from Citizens For Innisfail, addressed to the mayor, all six councillors and CAO Helen Dietz, was hand-delivered to the town office: "The Citizens for Innisfail have been apprised of a concerning situation unfolding

Recently the Olds Albertan covered the story about Fortis replacing our street lights with LED systems. While I can appreciate the energy savings, I have some concerns about the impact of LED lighting.

If greasing a wheel that would save the country tens of billions of dollars in the long run cost a mere few million dollars now, no one in their right mind would be opposed.