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Many residents of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation are worried about what can only be described as a plague of crime in their community. Since last January, that community has endured four murders, a rash of assaults and rampant drug crime.

”It’s not a functional system.” Those are words most people have come to expect when speaking about the government, but when they are uttered by a paramedic in regards to the province’s emergency services capabilities, they are unsettling at best.

Council voting itself a pay raise is rarely popular with voters, even if that raise does not come into effect until after the current term ends.

Darcy Dixon is back at the helm as chief of Bearspaw, part of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation. During the election, Dixon won a clear mandate despite at least one candidate running on a platform suggesting the band lacked financial accountability.

Darcy Dixon is back at the helm as chief of Bearspaw, part of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation. During the election, Dixon won a clear mandate despite at least one candidate running on a platform suggesting the band lacked financial accountability.

Another year is in the books and for many that means a time of reflection and goal setting. Here at the Eagle, the past year has come with a few changes.

There are few greater hardships than the death of a child.

This Christmas season is going to be hard for a lot of Albertans. In November, the provincial unemployment rate spiked to nine per cent, the worst rate in 22 years. In Calgary, the numbers were even more dismaying jumping to 10.

Community can mean different things to different people. Here in Cochrane we like to think it is a place where people work toward the common goal of creating a safe and sustainable place to live.

A push by six Cochrane women to bring an emergency shelter to town should garner support from not only the community at large but municipal, provincial and federal policy makers.