I was so looking forward to communal tippling with friends as the fourth wave fizzles out, only for Alberta to be hit with its first nasty winter storm. ...
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Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Time For Tempranillo
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
This Moment
Christmas, for all the jingle bells, snow, and Walmart shopping that goes with it, can come with a kind of malaise. A stuck-ness, some might say. We feel the...
Columnists - Karen McKee
The Hot Topic this Week is: The “Vaxxed vs the Unvaxxed” – Where do you stand?
This debate has been going on for over a year now and it does not show signs of dying any time soon. If anything, the opponents of the vaccine are becoming...
Columnists - Steve King
Effect of changing the clocks
I’ve never been a big fan of changing the clocks twice a year. Not because I come from Saskatchewan but because the reason for introducing “Daylight savings...
Columnists - Leela Aheer
MLA report November 16
Hello Chestermere Strathmore readers, I understand that Premier Kenney was in our riding this past weekend for an announcement that I made in July. It is...
Columnists - Karen McKee
The Hot Topic this Week is: The Poppy Crosswalk
On October 25th a Red Ribbon Cutting ceremony was held at Anniversary Park to celebrate the Poppy Crosswalk that was created through the inspiration of a local...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
A Bridge Too Fahr
With all the doom and gloom in the news these days, I was delighted to receive a little ray of sunshine from one of my favourite Alberta breweries. ...
Columnists - Steve King
Senior dogs
November is “National Adopt a Senior Pet Month”: a month in which people are reminded that there are many senior pets in shelters available for adoption, in...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
A Bridge Too Fahr
With all the doom and gloom in the news these days, I was delighted to receive a little ray of sunshine from one of my favourite Alberta breweries. ...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Lighting the Hearth fire
There is something important in the domestic rhythms of life. It is in our homes and in our neighbourhoods where we are formed, made, and perhaps even where we...




