Opinion

I am writing this letter to inform council and what the Town of Innisfail will experience for putting a skateboard park where the town decided it should go.

Many of us — if not most — have recently donned poppies in remembrance of the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform over the decades.

So I could not help but notice US President-elect Donald Trump's young son Barron seemed to look how so many of us felt following the biggest upset in modern American politics.

So much for the unfounded rhetoric The Donald regurgitated about the rigged election throughout the arduously drawn out campaign that has left millions of people in the U.S. and indeed around the world with an unmitigated migraine.

Privileged, heavily armed, white ranchers forcefully barricade themselves in a federal reserve in the U.S., resulting in a tense several-week standoff with authorities.

Government at all levels should strive to increase efficiencies while reducing as much as possible the cost burden on taxpayers to ensure the best proverbial bang per buck.

It was 100 years ago during the summer and fall of 1916, the immense, gruesome and generally futile Battle of the Somme was fought in northern France.

If the Roman rulers of their time knew one thing — and they knew a great many things to be sure — that nugget of wisdom was to beware of the mob and to take careful steps to vent as well as mitigate its propensity to spiral out of control.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme – a five- month campaign that started on July 1, 1 1916, involving predominantly French and British troops, but also many Canadians across a front line that bordered the River Somme in