Barton Cunningham News Today

Special to the Free Press In this icy economic climate, one often hears the cold advice, “You have only yourself to blame.” The words echo down dark, trash-bestrewn lanes. The clock tower in the distance doesn’t yet strike thirteen, but one wonders what’s next. In early 1982 the solicitor-general department of Alberta ran billboard ads depicting a tow truck pulling a wrecked car out a snow-filled ditch. In the lower portion of the sign in large letters was the comment: “Don’t blame ...