The Oyen Echo 9/27/22 The Oyen Echo 9/27/22

Improving Alberta’s driver licensing system

Starting in spring 2023, Alberta will no longer require the advanced road test for Class 5 and Class 6 driver’s licences.

The Oyen Echo 9/27/22 The Oyen Echo 9/27/22

Growing Through Grief: Grief is a Season

If you are in grief over loss of a loved one, a job, a relationship, a home, or any other loss I am here to tell you I have been there. Likely not exactly the same way you have but I can relate to the pain of loss.

The Oyen Echo 9/26/22 The Oyen Echo 9/26/22

Penton: MLB sluggers chasing history

It has been a baseball season to remember for a number of sluggers, but Aaron Judge, New York Yankees’ No. 99 — who shows absolutely no disrespect to that royal athletic number…

The Oyen Echo 9/26/22 The Oyen Echo 9/26/22

Pop 89: The Nightingalian Age

The press is caught up in royal-mania, on an upswing of its love-hate-love-the-monarchy pendulum. The latest symptom is the reference to Queen Elizabeth’s reign as the “Elizabethan era.”

The Oyen Echo 9/26/22 The Oyen Echo 9/26/22

Check It Out: One perspective doesn’t tell the whole story

I’m beginning this week with a corny Elvis joke. The voice on the phone told the lady she had won her choice of either $500 or tickets to see an Elvis Presley tribute band.

The Oyen Echo 9/24/22 The Oyen Echo 9/24/22

Part 2: Grant Devine’s motivation to build upgraders while they had the chance

This is Part 2 of a 6-part series on the two heavy oil upgraders built in Saskatchewan is based on the book So Much More We Can Be: Saskatchewan’s Paradigm Shift…

The Oyen Echo 9/22/22 The Oyen Echo 9/22/22

Alberta government set to hike gasoline tax

LETHBRIDGE, AB: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the Alberta government to scrap its plans to hike gas taxes.

The Oyen Echo 9/20/22 The Oyen Echo 9/20/22

Pop 89: They all served

What a tragic, momentous week it was. A week of death. On Thursday, these words came to mind: from the colonized to the colonizer.

The Oyen Echo 9/19/22 The Oyen Echo 9/19/22

Penton: Interesting winter ahead for Flames’ fans

Calgary Flames may have had the most intriguing off-season of any National Hockey League team, and for Flames’ fans, the coming season’s success or failure will be measured in mathematical comparisons.

The Oyen Echo 9/19/22 The Oyen Echo 9/19/22

Check It Out: Unity and integrity - a winning combo

A philosopher told his followers, “There are two things in life that matter above all else. 1. Integrity. If you made a promise, carry it out, even if it bankrupts you, cripples you, or kills you.

The Oyen Echo 9/19/22 The Oyen Echo 9/19/22

Devine’s heavy oil upgraders became anchors for Sask economy

Part 1 of a 6-part series on the Grant Devine-era heavy oil upgraders…

The Oyen Echo 9/19/22 The Oyen Echo 9/19/22

Health care delivery shows UCP’s arrogant ignorance

Twenty-two years of Alberta Health Services (AHS) and the promise of efficiency, effectiveness and financial stability has led to nothing.

The Oyen Echo 9/19/22 The Oyen Echo 9/19/22

The Klarenbach Report Sep 19

We live in a world of binary thinking. Where there are two sides, and you can only pick one. Are you with me or against me? We attach labels with certainty.

The Oyen Echo 9/15/22 The Oyen Echo 9/15/22

MP Kurek Joins Interparliamentary Group on Washington, D.C. Trip

Member of Parliament Damien C. Kurek had the following statement on his recent trip to Washington, D.C. with the Canada-U.S. Interparliamentary Association.

The Oyen Echo 9/15/22 The Oyen Echo 9/15/22

BUMP. SET. SPIKE!

Oyen’s South Central High School varsity girls’ home opener was against Provost Public on Thursday, September 15.