Our View

There have been a lot of politicians with shovels in their hands in the last few weeks in the foothills and it begs the question are they just hardworking or are they trying to dig themselves out of a hole. The Highwood has seen almost $8.

It has been just under a year since reports of problems with the local EMS service came out and now an EMS worker said an already sick system is only getting sicker.

We are deeply saddened at the loss of two FANASTIC doctors from Slave Lake. Dr Ashraf Khan was our family doctor and I will tell you people of Okotoks he is our great loss and your great gain.

Okotoks town council did the right thing in postponing a decision to annex enough land for 30 years of growth in order to get feedback from residents on the proposal.

The Alberta Court of Appeal made the right move to overturn part of a provincial decision allowing a pipeline to be built within 320 metres of Eden Valley.

You don’t need a college degree to know a high school diploma is more important than ever. Employers are looking for a diploma and the uncertainty with jobs not requiring one is high.

It is not surprising last week’s provincial budget wasn’t too hard for Albertans to swallow.

It might just look like another headline to some, but for the parents of 60 Okotoks kids who have nowhere to go, the possibility the Kids Stop Child Care Centre may end up closing part of its operations is very real.

The timing is not right for a suggestion to annex land around Okotoks from the MD of Foothills, which would include the 400-home Wind Walk development.

Fluoridating water has always been a controversial practice. People bring it in and people take it out again and it seems the people most in tune with our teeth are being completely ignored on the subject.