Alberta at Noon

Is this election campaign connecting with you and your concerns? Are the priorities of Albertans on the political agenda of the main party leaders? What do you think about what you've heard or NOT heard?

Do you have family or friends in the United States? How much are you talking about the trade war between our countries, and what have those conversations been like? 

It seems getting older influences our voting tendencies. The youth vote has been declining in recent elections.

How do you encourage voting for younger voters, and for all voters?

In this federal election campaign, the major party leaders are all promising tax cuts, trying to appeal to middle class voters. Is that how you see yourself?

Reality bites, but the bite was a not as bad as feared. Canada escaped new tariffs, but the existing tariffs remain. So what's next? What do you think of how our political leaders have responded? How are you feeling about it all today, as markets crash?

Sending your DNA for analysis has been all the rage. Was the rush to send DNA samples for testing putting people's privacy in jeopardy? With the bankruptcy of 23 and me, there are a lot of questions about the implications.

CBC's Go Public team tells the story of one man's long battle to get compensation from an airline, after he was wrongly prevented from boarding a flight. Their story made us wonder about yours. Is air travel working for you these days?

The Coronation Review, started publishing more than 100 years ago. It became the East Central Alberta Review, the local paper for people living in communities east of Red Deer, like Stettler, Coronation. It stopped publishing last week. How worried are you about getting local news in your community?

One person's junk, is another person's treasure and if you're inheriting a bunch of stuff, it might be hard to know which is which. How are you deciding what to hold onto?

Cutting taxes has been a feature of the major parties in the federal campaigns this week. The devil is in the details as the saying goes. We dig into those details and ask you what you think.