Opinion

'I hope our council leads on this issue and doesn't pander to the loudest voice in the room.'

'We have much more to offer than an impressive clock tower and industrial-sized wheat rods.'

'We need to rebuild trust, hope, and empathy. Fighting that virus could be child’s play in comparison.'

'We cannot have a misguided system that puts newspapers at risk at a time when the public needs trusted sources of information more than ever before.'

While political involvement has been an incurable and deadly feature of the pandemic, there is an effective preventive cure against vote-seeking hubris as COVID-19 enters the endemic phase.

'With so much key information still not in front of the public, residents can't possibly offer meaningful responses to a survey, or ask educated questions.'

'It is a pity that I must constantly look down where I am walking as people are too lazy to clean up the poop left behind by their dogs.'

'Mandating a zero warning, zero tolerance policy is heavy handed, especially the morning a park designation report was apparently released to the public.'

'Trees, and by definition forests, have been looking after themselves for a least two billion years. I'm pretty sure the City's parks department doesn't have a leg up on that.'

'On April 1 I had an unfortunate fall at Ricky's All Day Grill in St. Albert.'