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While Facebook was not the advent of social media, the social networking site was instrumental in bringing the culture from the dingy basements of home-hosted Bulletin Board Services to the mainstream.

What is it about rodeos and fairs that bring people together? Whether it is massive events such as the Calgary Stampede or Edmonton's Klondike Days or rodeos in small communities throughout the province, people flock in droves to take in the sights, smells and sounds.

If a long debate in council chambers this week is any indication, St. Albert’s mayor and councillors are an extremely optimistic bunch.

When Sean Simoes, a rather pathetic engineer with a $106,000 salary and a group of idiot friends, decided to shout obscenities at TV reporter Shauna Hunt they offended a lot of people.

It has been nearly three weeks since former city councillor Gilles Prefontaine was hired for a managerial position with the City of St. Albert.

For the past month our sports reporter, Jeff Hansen, has been profiling the unique and important efforts of the athletes in our city’s Special Olympics program a success.

It didn’t take long for the attacks on our new government to begin. It never does. And over the coming weeks and months, we will also join the fray as we continue to keep magnifying glasses focused on our local politicians.

“You don't need a corset of regulation, if you have a backbone of principle.” Those are the words of Alberta's auditor general restated in the Gazette by Jim Lightbody, a political scientist from the University of Alberta.

If there is one certainty in Tuesday’s upcoming provincial election, it is that whatever party voters choose to lead the province – the incumbent Progressive Conservatives, the New Democrats, the Wildrose, the Liberals or even the Alberta

The electoral winds of change are blowing across Alberta, and when next Tuesday’s vote is said and done, the winds may very well have carved an entirely new political landscape. This phenomenon, however, is not new.