Opinion

Each year in Alberta alone, driver distraction is associated with more than 100 deaths and 5,000 injuries from nearly 40,0000 collisions.

Re: ìRitz choosing to ignore reality of the CWB,î page 13, August 2, 2011 Mountain View Gazette.This is in response to my fellow Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) director Mr.

. With schools across West Central Alberta gearing up for the start of the 2011-12 school year, students of all grades are no doubt both sad to see the summer go but also happy to once again be meeting up with their classmates.

Editorial Alberta should conduct its own pot driving study British Columbia has announced that it will be conducting a comprehensive study into whether drivers high on marijuana cause more motor vehicle crashes than sober drivers.

Re: Bruce Rowe's letter to the editor, page 10, Aug.

Canadians from coast to coast last week were at first shocked and moved by the announcement from federal NDP leader Jack Layton that he was once again ill from cancer, that he needed to take time off from his duties on Parliament Hill to seek treatme

Thank you to everyone who either phoned or e-mailed and provided feedback regarding affordable shuttle trips to Calgary. As a result, Carol's Country Shuttle will begin offering a once-weekly scheduled service on Wednesdays beginning Oct.

Since accepting the Wildrose nomination for the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills constituency, I have been meeting with citizens, municipal government and community groups.

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz recently responded to an editorial in a Regina newspaper. Ritz brazenly titled his response ìWe'll Give Farmers Freedom.

Editorial Youth tobacco reduction requires multi-level effort The Harper government has announced that its Federal Tobacco Control Strategy (FTCS), an initiative aimed at reducing the number of current and future youth smokers, has met with considera