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The misconception is the Canadian Wheat Board has been eliminated, however, if anything the controversial marketing entity now has a unique opportunity to prove itself. On Aug.

It was expected there would be something damning or at the least extremely costly in the flood mitigation report which many thought was the reason the provincial government was hesitant to release the document.

A man found with three pounds of marijuana in his trunk on a local highway was sentenced to a 15-month community sentence - the same punishment he was handed 10 years earlier for essentially the same crime.

The father of a young woman killed on Highway 7 has every right to be upset, but the Okotoks RCMP must be able to do their job.

Unknowingly, the perpetrators of a despicable act of vandalism in George Lane Park in High River missed their target and it should be their undoing.

If Okotoks council was looking for direction from its growth survey, it did not get it. If anything the survey results, which were released at council’s regular meeting on Monday, muddied the waters further.

Okotoks town council elected not to make a commitment to a new performing arts centre and it was the right decision. There are bigger priorities facing the Town right now and the funds could be better spent elsewhere.

It’s time to put the brakes to drivers who think provincial highways are a racetrack. Alberta’s new Transportation Minister Ric McIvor is looking at getting tougher on the worst speeders on Alberta’s roads.

Rural and urban municipalities need to find a way to bridge their differences if the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP) has any chance for success.

Okotokians may not be enthralled with yet another delay by council on making a decision on the population cap, but it was the prudent move.