Opinion

I always figured I'd be writing a farewell column at some point, and I guess that day has arrived. After a little over five years of working here, this is officially my last column for the Airdrie City View .

As we approach the last days of August, and September looms, it has been a strange summer.

Despite a plethora of breaking news stories about wildfires in recent weeks (first Maui in Hawaii, then multiple fires near Yellowknife and West Kelowna) you won't be able to see stories about these incidents on your Facebook feed.

Rocky View County needs to be more proactive when it comes to addressing the local water emergency that is afflicting the entire metro Calgary region.

With dry conditions continuing in the mountains and river levels falling to their lowest point of the year in the region, the City of Airdrie imposed water restrictions on local households.

The summer break is pretty much over, and I'm diving into my last year of journalism school. Time has really zoomed by, and I can't help but feel super excited about what's coming my way.

The decision by Alberta's government to decisively sever its interest in hosting the 2030 Commonwealth Games is deserving of a place on a rarely-used podium, one reserved for responsible use of citizens’ tax dollars.

If you live in Cochrane, it's easy to have food on the brain this month. There's lots of food-related festivities in Cochrane throughout August, with events like the Cochrane Food Fest returning on Aug.

"It's not personal...it's strictly business.

Shakespeare once referred to death as the “undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.” Recently, I have been confronted by questions of mortality, my own, as well as those of some of my family members.