As I went out the door on my way to work this morning, I caught a glimpse of a cedar waxwing in a mountain ash tree by my driveway. Success! After setting food...
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Columnists - Tricia Ingram
Bird Is The Word
Columnists - Jai Murugan
(Seal)
My often too-real-for-comfort, but imaginary friend Kate absolutely hates seals. She believes they’re yappy, yippy smooth-skinned and stupid. They stick...
Columnists - Mansoor Ladha
Speak English, you are in Canada!
A reader wrote a letter to one of the local daily newspapers recently complaining about “Italian or Spanish-speaking men speaking their native language...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Vats In The Vatican
The eyes of the world were on Vatican City last month, as the big muckety-mucks of the Catholic Church elected a new pope. Your intrepid liquor reporter...
Columnists - Tricia Ingram
Best Spring and Summer Bulbs for the Prairies
As promised last week, this week’s subject is about the best varieties of spring and summer flowering bulbs for our area. Thanks to all that called and...
Columnists - Bruce McAllister
Wildrose Caucus Foundation sends cheques to charity
With the Easter weekend upon us, I thought it a perfect time to share a positive political story with you. Don’t laugh …there is such a thing from...
Columnists - Bruce McAllister
Remember that promise the provincial government made not to raise taxes?
Remember that promise the provincial government made not to raise taxes? Well, they just broke it. Not in the form of a provincial sales tax, but make no...
Columnists - Kevin Sorenson
Securing the Economics of Policing
Many of you will know that as your Member of Parliament, one of my duties in Ottawa is serving as the Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on...
Columnists - Mansoor Ladha
New Pope to usher in new era for church
EVEN as a non-Catholic I was excited about the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires as Pope Francis. It was the biggest story of the...
Columnists - Tricia Ingram
Dig, Drop, Done – A Fresh Approach to Gardening with Bulbs
I can’t tell you how many times I have had customers tell me that they meant to plant bulbs last year but didn’t, either because they just forgot...
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