Opinion

'I was born and raised in St. Albert, and it was St. Albert's pride that our snow trucks were the first ones out. Now they are non-existent.'

How is it that we have to slow traffic for work being done on a new road some distance from the existing roadway?

'Is there still a lack of transparency prevailing?'

'First, the amount to be levied will amount to 10 per cent of our tax bill. Secondly this is a nine-per-cent tax increase despite a recent 62-per-cent drop in ridership from 1.02 million to 390,000.'

'This year I learned the effects of a heat wave, temperatures up to 38 C and probably higher on the west wall of my house where I grow many of my tomatoes.'

'It's time the province's public-health restrictions regarded our dinner tables in the same way as open seating next to strangers in restaurants.'

'This, from a federal government that still cannot provide clean drinking water to its Indigenous citizens and a prime minister that doesn’t even honour Sept. 30 — the Day of Truth and Reconciliation — that he instituted.'

' ... a major overhaul needs to be done on fiscal responsibility, transparency, and common sense, or lack thereof.'

'The deferral program has led to unpaid bills of more than $14 million. Now, current good-standing customers are seeing an unfair rate-rider increase in their utility bills to cover this shortfall.'

'Every venue has its own fees, so you can't access different venues within one day without paying two or three separate fees.'