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Premier Alison Redford continued her promise to bring change to government with some surprise appointments and changes to the cabinet she announced on Tuesday, starting with first-term MLA Stephen Khan being named minister for advanced education and

When a sports team leaves town it’s rarely an amiable parting. More like a bitter divorce.

Fairly or not, there have been two nagging perceptions about St. Albert city councils: they’re business-unfriendly and they take forever to make a decision.

Pit the environment against profit and money will almost always emerge the winner.

So where do we go from here? Two days after giving Alison Redford and the Progressive Conservatives yet another majority government, Albertans are probably still trying to figure out just what happened.

Fewer than half of Alberta’s eligible voters even bothered to cast ballots in the last provincial election. The apathy back in the spring of 2008 could be partly understood since there was no challenge to the ruling Conservatives.

The results are in. During the course of the Gazette’s live blogging of Monday’s provincial candidates’ forum, as opposed to a debate, followers were asked a number of questions concerning their political views.

“Imagine what our real neighbourhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.” – Mr. Rogers.

Sometime in the next few weeks we will likely have to say so long to the St. Albert Steel. It’s been a short, not very profitable or enjoyable stay in St. Albert for the Alberta Junior Hockey League club.

So Paul Moulton thinks we “have to have an art gallery” in St.