Opinion

'The City of St. Albert and the County of Sturgeon need to sit down together and negotiate a new ICF.'

'When a council ignores and disrespects popular votes while stifling the will of the people, it takes much more than a catalogue of community surveys to heal the hurt.'

'Keeping up with the wanting web is driving me insane.'

'If municipal councils wish for more autonomy, municipalities can choose to raise property taxes and stop asking for provincial grant money. If municipalities wish for more provincial grant money, these same municipalities need to stop asking for autonomy.'

The Impact Assessment Act is a Trojan horse for the feds, preventing any designated project from proceeding if it may have environmental effects, positive or negative, marginal or significant.

'The parade is one of those places where community takes hold.'

'I would love for all the wild-tempered people in St. Albert to walk a day in another's shoes.'

'Distressingly, the curriculum has become a high-stakes political football, with Alberta’s children and its future set to become casualties.'

'For decades, Canadian conservatives have been saying and doing things that would have destroyed their careers if they lived in the American Bible Belt.'

'Instead of standing back and waiting for somebody else to take on the challenge, Yakemchuk saw herself as the somebody who could affect positive change and went for it.'