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Federal Election Candidate Questions
Posted on April 24, 2025As part of ongoing local coverage of the federal election campaign in Bow River, the Vauxhall Advance reached out to each candidate and asked them… Read More »
Former MP unfazed by independence criticism
Posted on April 10, 2025By Collin Gallant Southern Alberta Newspapers LaVar Payne says he feels independence is the best and only option for Alberta, but that assertion – made… Read More »
Keep CBC off the political chopping block
Posted on April 10, 2025I am writing to draw your readers’ attention to an imminent threat to Canada’s cultural sovereignty – one whose urgency grows by the day, as… Read More »
Hudson’s Bay stores closing their doors
Posted on April 10, 2025Dear Editor: The Hudson’s Bay company was established in 1670 by a royal decree from King Charles II and was granted monopoly rights over 3.9… Read More »
From the Archives of Western Newspapers
Posted on April 10, 2025By Samantha Johnson For Southern Alberta Newspapers April 9, 1884 – The Calgary Weekly Herald The first four-wheeled vehicle in this town is under construction.… Read More »
Plan to label Trump critics as mentally ill echoes authoritarian regimes
Posted on April 10, 2025In March 2025, New York psychiatrist Dr. Leon Hoffman wrote a letter to The Guardian reporting that the Minnesota legislature had requested the psychiatric community recognize a… Read More »
Correction: Higher hurdle for independence vote
Posted on April 10, 2025A recent report by Southern Alberta Newspapers provided an unclear picture of the requirements to proceed with a “independence referendum” in the Alberta. Alberta election… Read More »