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What is the difference between a fool, a smart person and an intelligent one? The fool never learns from his mistakes, the smart person does, and the intelligent one learns from the mistakes of others.

Here we go again. Quebec is heading for the election polls and the possibility of a separatist government returning to power is once again staring us all in the face.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Time to get ready for a life of schedules, extra-curricular activities, music lessons, fall sports and homework.

Even Alberta economists need to get out of their home province and stomp around the rest of the country now and then. And thanks to a bit of work/vacation, I had the chance to do this very thing.

Over the last couple of years, there’s been a lot of controversy over how the Stephen Harper Conservatives are supposedly creating a new narrative of Canada and Canadian history that emphasizes the images and values that the Conservatives favou

Fifteen years ago next Friday, at 12:23 a.m. Paris time, the Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales and her Egyptian lover Dodi al Fayad, crashed in a brilliantly lit tunnel. The paparazzi hunted them down, from the Ritz Hotel. The world mourned.

Since late 2011, the City of St. Albert has been developing a Social Master Plan, a strategic guiding document that will frame and determine decisions about social matters in the city.

This is written with deep respect for the staff of the city’s cultural services department, the staff and board of directors of the Arts and Heritage Foundation (AHF) and our city council.

After the latest fiasco with Alberta Health Services, where one employee charged every personal expense to the Alberta government while earning more in salary and benefits than Warren Buffet, we heard a now common refrain from the Progressive Conserv

In August 1982 Ronald Allen Smith, originally from Wetaskiwin, was hitchhiking through Montana with a fellow Canadian. Picked up by two men, they captured and murdered their benefactors.