Opinion

Election season has the money and promises flying left, right and centre in Alberta.

How a municipality passes information to its residents is among the most essential tasks for local government.

Canada has a fever. Our north is already warming at two to three times the mean global average. Even in the increasingly unlikely event that the world does manage to come together to keep mean temperature increases to below 2 Celsius, Canada is rapidly on its way to being at least 3 C hotter later in this century.

Despite weather suggesting the contrary, wildfire season has returned to the province, taking up the better part of the year running from March 1 to Oct. 31. While snow can linger well into May and make periodic appearances any other day of the year, the hot spots for potential fire dangers are around the corner.

A procedural bylaw is the governing document for how municipal councils conduct their business. It can regulate how bylaws are passed, motions raised and public notices issued among dozens of other details that can rarely be thought of in the minutiae of governance.

Council leads, staff follows.

Across the country, municipalities are lowering speed limits across the board – particularly on residential and collector roads – as evidence and research has borne out the impact it has in increasing safety.

COMMENTARY: Since 2016, more Albertans have died of opioid poisonings than COVID-19 in the province.

EDITORIAL: Alberta is calling. And while thousands of people have picked up the phone, packed their bags and headed west, not all parts of the province are created equal.

EDITORIAL: For people who live or visit the mountains in the winter, the threat of avalanches is a real issue for those travelling into certain areas across the Rocky Mountains.