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Commentary – Slowing things down a bit

Joe McWilliams Here’s a dilemma for you: our modern economy relies rather heavily on consumer spending. Buying things we don’t really need keeps millions employed, shareholders happy and so on. Good jobs, a decent standard of living, growth, prosperity, etc.…

May 22, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

Editorial – Butt out of Trans Mountain Pipeline debate, Al Gore

Mac Olsen So now, Al Gore is sticking his nose into the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion debate, but he should stick to his book tours about ‘melting ice caps’. Last week, an article in the Canadian Press about Al Gore’s…

May 22, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

Commentary – Great potential to build local tourism

Richard Froese Tourism has great potential to boom around the Lesser Slave Lake region. The upcoming Victoria Day weekend on May 19-21 historically marks the launch of the summer tourism season, when people flock to the lake and nearby resorts.…

May 16, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

The View From Here – Calgary evicts mobile home residents, needs land for the upwardly mobile

Tom Henihan It is a large part of history everywhere in the world that those living in adequate but insubstantial dwellings are displaced by those who arrogantly believe because they build structures on solid foundations they put down deeper roots…

May 15, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

Editorial – Appreciating the historical and genealogical resources available in the region

Mac Olsen Last week, I attended the annual general meeting of La Societe Historique et Genealogique de Smoky River, as the Donnelly council representative. They had a guest speaker, Jen Laderoute of Gift Lake Metis Settlement, who offered an oral…

May 15, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

The View From Here – To achieve reconciliation, the pope needs to apologize formally to residential school survivors

Tom Henihan On May 1, Members of Parliament voted almost unanimously, 269 to 10, to invite Pope Francis to Canada to apologize formally to First Nations people for the brutality and enduring pain they experienced due to their internment in…

May 9, 2018 · by Admin2015 · 1

Commentary – Change is the law of life

Tom Henihan Sometimes we discover we have changed, that the persona we trusted as authentic and with which we presented ourselves to others no longer fits and needs adjustment. Change, especially personal change is often discomfiting at first but when…

May 8, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

Editorial – Social media app video functions – how many do you need to communicate?

Mac Olsen A friend’s recent comment, ‘I don’t do FaceTime’ got me thinking about the overabundance of video functions that we have on our social media apps. There are many social media apps with a video function out there –…

May 8, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

Letter – Roll on democracy!

To the Editor: If ever we get the chance to decide together our common future, we will not let any of us get a far larger part of the wealth and leave a large group with just enough to survive.…

May 2, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

The View From Here – British prime minister Therese May’s latest environmental pronouncement is definitely the last straw

Tom Henihan The environment warriors, those self-ordained stewards of the planet have found a new raison d’être, the abolition of the plastic drinking straw. While in pursuit of the offending drinking straw, the nefarious cotton swab and stir stick did…

May 2, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

Editorial – Be wary of social media content that tries to hijack tragedies

Mac Olsen First, it was the tragedy of the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team that we had to endure. Now, it’s the murder of 10 people and injury of 14 others in the van rampage that took place in Toronto…

May 1, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

Commentary – On Shania and Suzuki

Jeff Burgar There are so many exciting things these days. Outraged folks will picket a shop because they don’t like a sign in the window. Meanwhile, I’m wondering where the outrage is over one of our favourite country singers, Shania…

April 30, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

Letter – Friends Of an Unpolluted Lifestyle (F.O.U.L) continues to actively monitor the Smoky River Region

To the Editor: F.O.U.L. was formed in the late months of 2003 after residents living near the 50,000 head Industrial Hog barn operations South of Girouxville decided they had to do something about the poor air quality in the area…

April 28, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

The View From Here – Opposition to U of A awarding David Suzuki an honorary degree is justified

Tom Henihan No university should bestow accolades on a scientist who has compromised his integrity, whose claims are deemed by many of his peers to be outlandish and as an environmental advocate cites false sources to support those outlandish claims.…

April 27, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·

Commentary – No pipeline upgrade? Then no more oil for B.C.

Mac Olsen Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Rachel Notley appear united in their determination to see the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline upgrade proceed. But I will reserve judgment until they provide specific details about how they will make…

April 26, 2018 · by Admin2015 ·