Our View

As residents brace for the coming utility rates increases which kick in after the new year, the City of St. Albert announced what appears to be an early Christmas present for households that will be most affected.

This week we staged the Great St. Albert Gazette Commuter Challenge to determine what might be the best way to commute from downtown St. Albert to downtown Edmonton. The rules were simple, the commuter to reach Edmonton City Hall first won.

St. Albert is a rich community. Look around and it is not hard to see the wealth – large houses, expensive cars, boats and other recreational toys parked in many driveways. Family income in St.

Over the last 50 years, we have all witnessed staggering changes in our society.

Just a few short weeks ago, we considered writing an editorial on how the Wildrose had wilted following its disastrous showing in four provincial byelections and the resignation of one of its most charismatic, if slightly roguish, MLAs in Joe Anglin.

Ethnic feeling has been at the root of much of the world’s misery in the last century. The First World War involved both ethnic-based national states and multi-ethnic empires.

St. Albert became the latest community this week to join the growing list of places across the nation where an aboriginal woman has disappeared.

St. Albert’s latest Downtown Area Redevelopment Plan (DARP) will be five years old before the shovels hit the dirt for its initial, and to be honest, uninspiring first publicly-funded steps next year, when a section of St.

Cigarette marketing is insidious. In 1988, advertising tobacco products in Canada was banned. In recent years, that ban has extended to retailers being unable to display the products openly in their stores.

The First World War began 100 years ago, in 1914, and the Second World War began in 1939, 75 years ago.