Category - Columnists

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

The (Still) Golden Rule

For thousands of years we’ve had neighbours and neighbourhoods. Whether it was the cavemen next door who made loud noises until all hours of the night...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Alberta Distilling

Things are looking up in the state of spirit distillation in Alberta. Sure, your intrepid liquor reporter keeps tending to his hillbilly moonshine still...

Columnists - Tamara Gutierrez

What’s your excuse?

Fitness should be fun!   I am not the first to tell you that exercise and being fit is vital to health and feeling good so we should want to be fit, right?  So...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

Belonging Everywhere

My wife and her brother love the Calgary Roughnecks. Each year they get season tickets and plan their lives around the next lacrosse game. Decked out in the...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Pining For Penfolds

It is hard to talk about Australian wine without a mention of Penfolds, one of largest and oldest wineries from the land down under. It all began back in 1844...

Columnists - Leela Aheer

MLA report Jan 14

Happy New Year Chestermere! I hope that through the Christmas season you were able to take some time and skate on our lake, walk through the snow, have some...

Columnists - Tamara Gutierrez

Happy New Year!

Just like that, the holidays have come and are already done. Trees are coming down, the decorations are being stowed away until next year, and new toys and...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

Warming up the Neighbourhood

The other day I waved at a neighbour and said, “see you in the spring!” I chuckled to myself as I said it, because in Alberta, it’s all too...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

About Time

Your intrepid liquor reporter went on his annual pilgrimage to the Okanagan Fall Harvest Wine Festival earlier this year, when I came across a new winery that...

Columnists - RollyAshdown

County Report December

First let me wish all Residents a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I hope the next year brings you everything you are hoping for. On my last article...