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That loud noise you heard on Wednesday wasn’t an apology from Ed Stelmach or Gene Zwozdesky or even Ron Liepert for that matter.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally has the majority he has sought for so long. It is a small majority, but it is difficult to argue that how much you win by is more important than the fundamental fact that you won.

On paper, the clean-tech and sports city development proposed by Rampart Avenir and St. Albert Sports and Entertainment is an innovative vision currently unheard of in St. Albert, one that would boost the city’s bottom line by as much as $7.

The disappointing turnout at the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce all-candidates’ forum was expected because of scheduling it on the Thursday night before Good Friday.

A buck and a dime won’t buy much these days — chances are you can cobble together more from loose change in your couch. Yet this figure, which represents the monthly savings potential from St.

Electors who don’t vote because “they don’t know enough about the issues” can no longer cling to this sorry excuse for failing to participate in the democratic process.

Over the course of three decades, nearly every aspect of Ray Gibbon Drive has been debated to death, from the alignment and environmental impact to the cost of borrowing, financial risk and the phasing and timing of construction.

Jan Buterman is refusing a “substantial” cash settlement and offer of temporary employment from Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools so he can continue to talk about what happened to him, and rightly so.

Anger over the so-called “quadgate” that dumped a flurry of criticism on city hall and the local RCMP over a local chiropractor’s snowplowing good deed gone awry has long since melted.

When voters turn their attention to the issue of crime, there is one key question worth asking — do we as a country want to spend more to keep criminals in jail for longer or spend more to decrease the number of individuals going to prison or r