Category - Columnists

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Gose Riders in the Sky

I recently made a day trip to Drumheller to show off the badlands and dinosaur museum to some visitors from out of town, and after learning all about the...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Nibbles and Nebbiolo

Looking for a last-minute bottle of wine while en route to a dinner party last week, my local bottle shop just happened to have a wine rep pouring samples from...

Columnists - Elaine and Don Cassidy

The Big & The Beautiful

May canoe paddle of Long Bay, a popular part of Cold Lake, provided an opportunity to enjoy the company of waterfowl. With my entry-level Canon Rebel paired...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

40 Beers for 40 Years

ooking back four decades, I can dimly recall that 1985 was quite the year. Madonna and Huey Lewis were on the top of the charts. Cheers and the Golden Girls...

Columnists - Elaine and Don Cassidy

Donald! Is There a Dearth of Ducks?

eeing a number of bird and wildfowl species, but we noticed that “Daffy Duck”, seemed remarkably absent in quantity. We’d find most of the two dozen Alberta...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Que Syrah Syrah

While at a recent meeting with my regular tippling posse, someone pulled out a few bottles of really old Syrah, and challenged us to a blind tasting against a...