Our View

If this is January it must be flu season in Alberta – congested emergency rooms, employees phoning in sick, over-the-counter remedies selling like hotcakes.

Finally, NHL hockey is set to return to arenas all across North America, to television screens in millions of homes and sports bars, to the many daily sports pages across the continent and to the daily conversations of millions of fans both rabid and

It’s a rather concerning reality when individuals in our community who lack mobility are left with two bleak options in winter months: they can stay indoors or risk their lives navigating city streets.

Predicting the future is a perilous business, but that’s no excuse for not trying. Here, then, is a bit of serious (and not-so-serious) crystal ball-gazing for 2013.

It is wrong to criticize one group of people at the expense of another, but in effect, that’s what the city is doing with its ongoing support of one youth group while withholding grant funding from another, all the while cloaked in the security

Using social media to share the locations of checkstops demonstrates a blatant lack of respect for public safety. Checkstops are aimed at removing impaired drivers from roadways, while educating the public on the effects of drinking and driving.

Whether it’s Monday evening or Tuesday morning, most of us will spend some time in the next few days tearing open presents with great zeal and affection.

Throughout the month of December, the Gazette has written thousands of words about giving. Christmas is a fine time to be jolly, but scratch a bit deeper and you’ll find a season of compassion and charity. Right now in St.

It seems inevitable that Edmonton’s LRT system will someday extend to and through St. Albert, therefore it’s prudent that our city council has decided to start planning for it now.

The public inquiry into queue-jumping in the province’s health-care system is making little progress in solving the many problems still plaguing the system.