Opinion

When there’s an issue afoot, being booted by competing community groups seeking public funding, it’s often called a political football. Town council, tasked with deciding who wins this game, is the referee.

Highway 22 seems to be turning into a death trap. Another fatality occurred last week, and from what the preliminary investigation indicates, the conditions of the road were to blame.

One final column on how our views on the afterlife relate to our lives here and now. This week: Muslim, Baha’i and early Christian perspectives, and then an Olympics lesson I experience daily around town.

My suitcase is waiting, ready for me to pack, as I prepare for my trip to England. On Saturday, I’m heading over to the UK and March 4 I start my attempt to run 1,014 km around the South West Coast Path.

Most people are aware by now that cellphones can be quite the distraction when one is behind the wheel.

This column is a preview on Olympic men’s hockey. As a Canadian fan, I am not looking forward to these Olympics. But we could be surprised even though I do not like how the team is assembled. Now I know that Martin St.

It’s becoming clear that building a turf field in Cochrane is more complicated than you’d think.

Reader responses to our current series of columns on how one’s views on the afterlife relate to life this side of the grave have been just out of this world . . .

The Butters family has been in the Cochrane area since 1936. Richard Butters came from Conway, just east of Calgary and purchased land north of the Ghost River from the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Working together sure seems like it’s out of the question for the Turf Association and Cochrane Lions Football when it comes to the creation of a turf field...at least for now it does. Listening to each organization make presentations to council Jan.