Opinion

If there is one thing that is never short of dreams and schemes in Canadian agriculture, it is beef marketing.

I am paying close attention and have instructed my staff to set aside for me the input I receive from our riding on assisted suicide in Canada, and in particular, Private Member’s Bill C-384, introduced by Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde.

The economic outlook for the immediate future stinks so bad you and your other 69 blue shirts put on a hiring freeze for the civil service. Unless deemed essential, positions are remaining unfilled in an effort to reduce costs.

Early next week two German-owned container ships will arrive in Rotterdam from Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, having taken only one month to make the voyage.

How do you measure the significance of a life? I once enrolled in a class that analyzed the lives of the seven most significant and influential men in modern western culture.

I’m addressing Dick Richard’s statement on the front of the Stettler Independent, Sept. 9, 2009 where he stated that it is important to remain competitive in regards to services provided for seniors.

It seems like only yesterday Canada was running surpluses and was led by a fiscally conservative government.

You must have heard by now: Our incredibly successful provincial government has now started to seize reserve funds from all school boards, funds which are being kept to deal with emergencies such as breaking-down school buses, failing toilets or dysfunctional boilers.

Political commentators and ruminators are almost unanimous in their post-mortem dissection of the recent by-election in Calgary, which saw the upset victory of Wildrose Alliance (WRA) candidate Paul Hinman over Progressive Conservative (PC) and Liberal opponents.

We’d just moved and one of the families in our new church made it their habit to pray daily for the recently installed pastoral family. Two of their children felt that it was good to pray, but told their parents that prayer was not enough and that they should also do something to show that their faith was real. The parents asked them what they had in mind.