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It wasn't advertised as such, but Monday marked the start of the next municipal election campaign in St. Albert.

The city and developers banking land for future development might need to consider putting large signs on privately owned yet still undeveloped land in St. Albert to save themselves headaches when they do decide to start building.

Are the provincial Tories that dumb, or are they that smart – ubersmart? On the surface, it would appear they really are that dumb.

Adieu, Dalton McGuinty. The Ontario premier announced his resignation earlier this week, leaving behind a modest record of accomplishment after nine years at the helm of Canada’s most populous province.

It is difficult to evaluate how successful St. Albert’s economic development pursuits are when all we see are high-level plans along with non-descript assurances that there is increased interest in the development community.

Through no fault of its own, Alberta’s beef industry has suffered another major blow to its already fragile reputation in the wake of the nation’s largest beef recall.

Oh, my. Is it really possible that city council will revisit its decision to put dogs on a leash? Just when it appeared St.

An interesting detail emerged from a recent batch of StatsCan numbers. Albertans, the agency reported, are spending record amounts of money in bars and restaurants, a seasonally-adjusted $653 million in July. That’s a lot of food and drink.

“For a city to be healthy from a financial standpoint you want to see this (residential to commercial taxation) ratio in an 80 to 20 ratio, or even get it to 25 per cent.

When the issue of animal bylaw changes came to city council earlier this week it raised a couple of questions. Why is this before council again? Council spends far too much time mired in minutia.