Opinion

The beautiful wild horses of Alberta need your voice.A letter from Alberta Sustainable Resource Development dated Oct. 18, 2007 stated that there are 200 to 300 wild horses in the province.

The audacity of men (and sometimes women) never fails to amaze me. The capture of 216 horses in the West Country and most likely the slaughter of these horses, I find very distressing.

At the same time that the Department of National Defence has admitted that the number of suicide incidents in the Canadian Forces has risen, how is it possible that the department is eliminating the jobs of medical professionals involved in suicide p

It was with great disdain that I took time out of my day to write to our representative in the Alberta Legislature concerning the malicious destruction of approximately 250 horses out of the Panther River reserve area this past winter.

It has been approximately eight weeks since a sandblasting and industrial painting business was allowed to begin operating from their acreage next door to mine.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Canada has always been one of the country's top promoters of alcohol-free motoring, encouraging anyone who partakes of alcoholic beverages to stay well away from the driver's seat.

Pit the environment against profit and money will almost always emerge the winner. Nowhere is that more evident than right here in Alberta, Canada's richest province that is responsible for about half of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions.

Last week's sentencing of an Ontario man for the vicious sexual assault and murder of an eight-year-old girl has once again raised the question of whether the ultimate penalty for such crimes currently allowed under Canadian law adequately condemns s

With last month's sweeping victory over the Wildrose, Liberals and NDP, the newly-minted Alison Redford government is certainly facing a big job and lots of challenges over the next four years.

The other day there was a flyer in my mailbox that explained the benefits of the Netook development: $17.3 million in taxes for the county in 20 years, from an industrial park and a 671-unit housing development.