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Five years ago Art Rechlo’s life began to change. Diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia in 2007 the disease began to strip away the person he was.

In late December, a few weeks shy of his 19th birthday, Caelin Porter killed himself in a hotel room. These simple but eloquent words written by Gazette reporter Viola Pruss begin a tragic story about the suicide of a well-liked, capable, young St.

Developments in technology and new grant and incentive programs for environmentally friendly technology are making it easier and easier to be green these days.

Does Alberta really want to roll the dice on online gambling? As one of the last hold out provinces in Canada to implement its own online lottery system, Alberta is eying its potential as a revenue source.

More than 200 years after the first vaccine was used to combat smallpox, our society has developed protections against a host of diseases that are either potentially deadly, debilitating or both – measles, polio, mumps, rubella to name a few.

Karl Marx once wrote, “There is a spectre haunting Europe, the spectre of communism.” The rise of socialism in the late 19th century introduced a new ideology that challenged the European system founded after the Napoleonic War.

Alberta MLAs vote to cut their salaries by five per cent this week – a move pushed by the Progressive Conservatives – is pure politics that will result in no tangible savings.

Warning calls are coming from emergency room doctors across Alberta who are telling the province that patients are at risk due to hospital overcrowding and too few resources. Dr. Darryl F. Stewart of Sturgeon hospital and Dr.

When Premier Jim Prentice floated the idea of a provincial sales tax to combat falling oil revenues, as many expected it went over like a lead balloon.

When former finance minister and Progressive Conservative heavyweight Doug Horner announced he was quitting politics last week it wasn’t a big surprise.