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If I didn’t know the reason, I’d call the people passing my workplace office windows these days quite odd. Some pass by as usual – until they hit the space below the nearest tree, just a few feet from the door. Then, suddenly, they jump backwards.

An Edmonton police officer lost his life this week, trying to uphold the law and keep the peace. In other words, he was doing his job. It’s, overwhelmingly, sad to read these types of stories and they are becoming more and more too frequent.

This past weekend the 18th annual Brayden Ottenbreit Close Cuts for Cancer held its highlight head-shaving event at the Parkland Mall in the city.

Whether politically motivated or not, rural Saskatchewan may owe a debt of gratitude to Progressive Conservative leader Rick Swenson. Forcing the issue on who has the right to own farmland in this province is a debate worth having.

Dear Editor: On Saturday, June 6, Royal Canadian Legions all across Canada will commemorate D-Day – a military term used to indicate the day a combat attack or operation is set to be initiated.

Welcome to Week CLIX of ‘Fishing Parkland Shorelines’. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

I love any story that pushes human behaviour further back in history. These stories are very common in anthropology as they are in paleontology.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Randy Brenzen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

My experience working for a police department taught me that there is a small percentage of officers who are absolutely brilliant.