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In 2011, I vouched for one of an estimated 120,000 people requiring that help so they could cast a ballot in the 2011 federal election. It was for my roommate at the time.

“The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things …” The people of Kitimat have come out 58 per cent opposed to the Gateway pipeline.

Easter is probably not the ideal time to be discussing politics, but the man we remember at this holiday time, Jesus Christ, loved a good laugh as much as anyone.

In the years since the Second World War, scientists of many stripes have calculated the probability of other life existing somewhere in the universe.

The attempt to appoint Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court of Canada ignored obvious difficulties with his eligibility flowing from the wording of the Supreme Court Act.

Last Friday afternoon I attended a city event for service providers and community support organizations to hear Pat Nixon’s insights into dealing with the issues of homelessness and poverty.

Grace Hopper, a former United States rear admiral and computer development pioneer, once said, “The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘We've always done it this way.

Canada and Mexico are in a standoff. Their relations seem as chilly as our never-ending winter, though there is more hope that this cold weather will soon pass.

When I was a boy, we honoured the soldiers of the Crimean War (1853-56) on November 11. We don’t do that any more.

Over the last few years in St. Albert, we have had a heated debate on what we should be spending our tax dollars on. People have objected to city hall spending tax dollars on such things as the purchase of the Stuart Steinhauer sculptures by St.