As the holiday season approaches, I have been bulking up the contents of the wine cellar in anticipation of visits with fully vaccinated family and friends...
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Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Make Merry With Sherry
Columnists - Leela Aheer
MLA report December 14
Hello Chestermere Strathmore I hope you have had a wonderful week with the weather doing its best to throw us as many curveballs as possible. I wanted to give...
Columnists - Karen McKee
The Hot Topic this Week: Skating on Thin Ice!
“It’s coming on winter, they’re cutting down trees, they’re putting up reindeer and signing songs of joy and peace. Oh, I wish I had a river, that I could...
Columnists - Steve King
Being an effective dog owner
20+ years ago, Stephen Covey wrote his classic self-help book entitled “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. In reviewing some of the underlying themes of...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Black Friday Lager
The typical mobs of crazed bargain hunters did not swarm the shopping malls this year for Black Friday, with the pandemic forcing them to move to online...
“We’re in deep, deep doo-doo,” said David Suzuki at an Extinction Rebellion protest in Vancouver, B.C. on November 20, 2021. “This is what we’re come to...
Columnists - Martin Shields
44th Parliament, Inflation
It’s official, the 44th Parliament has begun – finally. 64 days after the election, the Speech from the Throne was delivered by our Governor General on behalf...
Columnists - Steve King
Giving thanks
Tis the season of Thanksgiving so I thought it appropriate to share my thoughts on what I am thankful for in the canine world: Volunteerism: many dog-related...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Alberta Distillers
In the squandered days of my callow youth, our world-class rye and barley crops were used mainly as cattle feed, with nary a thought given to craft beer or...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Sow Seeds Every Day
A friend of mine, and a great lover of neighbourhoods, passed away suddenly and tragically last month. Matthew Gillette was a young father, pastor, and...
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