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Six-time Stanley Cup champion and former St. Albert Saint Mark Messier is widely regarded as one of the National Hockey League’s all-time greats. He’s second on the all-time career lists for regular season points and playoff points.

The Alberta Liberal party has had 29 leaders since it last ruled the province 90 years ago.

St. Albert enjoys a reputation of being an affluent, highly educated community. So you can understand our surprise to discover the reasons some young people in our city are contributing to the province’s growing number of teen smokers.

Love it or hate it, Alberta’s new distracted driving law is here to stay, and while the reaction to it is mixed, hopefully it will be embraced by motorists quicker than the seatbelt legislation that was enacted more than 20 years ago.

There’s a split in opinion on the firing of long-time St. Albert director of business and tourism development, Larry Horncastle. On one side, we have city administration, which obviously believes Horncastle was not the guy to get the job done.

Hundreds of people gathered outside the White House in Washington, D.C., last week to chant, unfurl banners and wave signs. But this protest had nothing to do with a war being fought half a world away or the iron-fisted rule of a foreign dictator.

Every year, we’re confronted with stories about people dumping their unwanted refuse onto the doorstep of some overstretched local charity. This week, the LoSeCa Foundation is the one that’s been unceremoniously dumped on after hours.

Well, there’s one more sleep to go before the biggest event of St. Albert’s 150th celebration.

In his time as the leader of the federal New Democratic Party, Jack Layton fought many uphill battles and won. But, sadly, he succumbed to the biggest fight of his life early Monday morning.

It’s encouraging that city council has taken the next step toward bringing on more light industrial development in St.