Opinion

Despite posting a $2.4 billion surplus, the UCP's latest provincial budget didn't seem to buy that much support in Cochrane and Airdrie last week. The Alberta government tabled its 2023 budget on Feb. 28, highlighting a $2.

Often government schemes are simply irritating. Occasionally however, they are truly frightening.

Dear editor, I found the Feb. 16 Airdrie City View issue's editorial about the 15-minute city controversy quite disturbing.

Dear editor, The fact that some people have other viewpoints regarding the 15-minute cities matter should be welcomed and appreciated. No one group has all the answers or knowledge .

Dear editor, I want to applaud the Airdrie Public Library for hosting a week of reading books that are banned for content that someone decided we should not be reading. 

While I hadn't skied in a couple of years, I quickly proved true that it's like riding a bike – you never forget how.

For however long winter decides to stick around this year, we'd encourage readers to do what they can to embrace the final weeks (or months) of the cold season.

Whether it's a proposed Costco, a brewery that is going to be built in their hamlet, or a new housing subdivision, there are always going to be some people who do not want to see that kind of development in their backyard.

Putin asked for it when he sent Russian soldiers across the border of another nation thinking it would be a cakewalk, only, to his dismay, to find his own army has been stacking itself up in the charnel house.

Our page 3 story in this week's issue centres around the growing need for a Francophone high school in Airdrie.