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It was just a matter of time before someone got really hurt when we decided to arrest Meng Wanzhou, a top official of Huawei, a major Chinese telecom company, that is competing globally with U.S.-based telecommunications corporations.

The phrase “garbage in, garbage out” has been used to refer to computer programming, but the more literal meaning certainly holds true with regard to our current dilemma with waste management.

While we don’t often think of money as a commodity, in reality, that’s precisely what it is – a commodity that goes up and down in value as the demand and supply of the currency changes.

“Poverty is a lack of resources, income and assets necessary for a standard of living that supports economic security, physical stability and social inclusion.

2018 was a heated year for Canadian politics. Canadians faced a variety of issues ranging from energy development to the renegotiation of our trade relationships with the U.S. and Mexico.

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier.’” These optimistic words penned by Victorian-era poet Alfred Lord Tennyson evoke the positive connotations that accompany the beginning of a new year.

St. Albert city council deserves to be commended for next year’s budget, which kept the tax increase at only 0.4 per cent. This continues the trend of the last few years, when we had an increase of 2.4 per cent last year and 2.1 per cent in 2017.

Early in December, a celebrity meltdown occurred on Twitter – rapper Kanye West ranted about medication and its effect on his creative process. Then Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson alarmed millions of fans by declaring in a Dec.

Much has happened to our world over this past year – some promising and positive interludes, but overall, discouraging and punishing. First, the good news – nuclear attacks remain on hold.

It is as inescapable as December snow. The recent Saturday Night Live skit entitled “It’s a Beautiful Trump” precipitated a flurry of frosty tweets from POTUS.