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Stereotypes are sometimes hurtful and always frustrating, as anyone judged on their skin colour, gender, birthplace or age will tell you. There’s one stereotype that’s been appearing in the Gazette with regularity that demands attention.

Some problems are so profound, some mistakes so obvious, that anger gives way to laughter when thinking too much about them. Take the Capital Region Board, for instance.

In the aftermath of the tragic flooding of southern Alberta, the inevitable “Let’s make sure it never happens again” talk has begun, and it’s begun at the highest levels of government.

Poor communication by the city has left St. Albert without a much-needed air quality monitoring station. St.

The Calgary Stampede is underway. This is an event that, nearly three weeks ago, many thought wouldn’t take place in the aftermath of Alberta’s worst natural disaster in history.

The subject of light rail transit is one that elicits some heated response around St. Albert. City council is enamoured of Edmonton’s idea of extending the LRT to St. Albert sometime in the future.

This newspaper edition marks the beginning of a new era in the printing industry in the Capital region, and Western Canada for that matter.

In 2011, the Springbank Airport just outside of Calgary was the twelfth busiest airport in Canada by total aircraft movements.

St. Albert Gazette readers will certainly have noticed several articles regarding the informal boarding house situation occurring at 3 Gould Place.

Re: The June 15 commentary ‘Assisted suicide is murder. Period’, by columnist Sharon Ryan. Ms. Ryan is totally right when she states that suicide is murder, for the law of the land right now says it is a crime.