Category - Columnists

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

The New Neighbourliness

I knew a man who had flown fifty bombing missions during World War 2. He was soft spoken and kind, and rarely talked about his experiences. Yet I had the great...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Begin With Gin

Your humble narrator is delighted with his page-a-day booze calendar, which lets me sample a different spirit every day, all in the name of field research...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Jersey Shore

New Jersey has given the world many things. Bruce Springsteen. Frank Sinatra. Abbott & Costello. John Travolta. Martha Stewart. Light bulbs. The Statue of...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

Awake

When I was a teenager I had to get my wisdom teeth pulled. The dentist prepped me on the procedure and explained that I’d be drugged up and knocked out...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

Small

If you talk to a few hundred children under the age of seven in Chestermere, they’ll probably know me first and foremost as the “bee-guy.”...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Northwest Pints

The iconic Canadian musician Stan Rogers crooned in dulcet tones of the fabled Northwest Passage, which was sought in centuries past by explorers trying to...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

In Praise of Slow

Why is it that many of the best things in life take time? My neighbour has been teaching me this. He has three excellent hobbies and each of them celebrate the...