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By May 2001, the city had made the leap into the future of speed enforcement and new revenue streams when St. Albert’s first photo radar vehicle became operational.

City council was almost able to keep its promise of no property tax increases for three years, but May 1996 proved its undoing.

I was driving through the neighbourhood last week and noticed a school backpack left lying on a bus stop bench. Having a blended family with seven children, I am acutely aware of how kids feel when they lose something important.

The stated objective of Canada’s equalization program is to ensure provincial governments in less-prosperous regions of the country are able to deliver high-quality public services to residents. This is a worthwhile, even noble objective.

It was May 1989 when St. Albert residents learned that a tanning salon wasn’t always a tanning salon. Members of the chamber of commerce had an inkling there was something fishy going on at St.

Well, we have done it. Our national flirtation with participatory democracy in Ottawa has come to an end for at least four years.

Every spring the melting snow gives way to a vast sea of green in our beautiful city’s parks and open spaces.

There was a fire smouldering between city council and the St. Albert Gazette in May 1977 and it finally erupted at a meeting early that month.

In olden times, practices were rough in disposing of a slain foe’s body.

My lovely wife sometimes calls me the world’s youngest grumpy old man. There’s some truth to that, as my regular readers can attest.