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‘Banks raise service fees after breaking record for profits.’ That was the headline in one paper this week and it helps confirm that banks rate right alongside oil companies when it comes to being easy targets for criticism.

Before every performance at the Jubilee Auditorium, three announcements are made. “Ladies and gentlemen, the performance will begin in 15 minutes. Please take your seats.

What’s the value of 162 lives? That’s the number of Canadian husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters who have died in Afghanistan since the government took us into that conflict in 2002.

Why is that Americans always have to stick their noses in everyone else’s business? It’s nothing new, of course. They do it all the time, even to the point of overthrowing governments and starting wars.

Walking in St. Albert was treacherous this week, not on public sidewalks, which given the freezing rain were relatively well sanded, but on the goat trails which pedestrians are forced to use if they want to shop in local malls.

Almost annually since the mid ’90s when the government deregulated electricity rates there's been about a two-month period when panic sets in and Albertans struggle to decide if they should lock into a long-term plan or continue to have their b

The struggle between good and evil is as old as humanity itself. It is a battle that has been waged every minute of every day and even today humanity demonstrates daily that it is a fight we will never finish and will never win.

If you choose to open your New Year's champagne with a sword, use extreme caution. At least that's the recommendation of wine expert Rosanne Winter-Repchuk, who has tried the stunt herself — once — in her sommelier class at NAIT.

This may be the one week of the year when people — perhaps parents of young children especially — find themselves bouncing between two emotional extremes: from happiness when enjoying time with family and friends, to worrying that in the

The Muppets movie is not about Christmas, yet at the heart of the film is the essence of what Christmas is to many people today: family and friendships.