Hello Chestermere-Strathmore readers! All of us know someone who has affected by the scourge of addiction. It destroys lives, families, and hope. On February...
Category - Columnists
Columnists - Leela Aheer
MLA report February 6
Columnists - Steve King
Do dogs get embarrassed?
Embarrassment is an interesting concept. For humans, embarrassment can be caused by a number of factors: someone not conforming to societal norms in public...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Chinese New Year
Kung Hei Fat Choi to you all! For non-Chinese speakers in the audience, a loose translation is “Congratulations and be prosperous”. January 25 marked the...
Columnists - Leela Aheer
MLA report January 30
Hello Chestermere! I hope you enjoyed this last week of melting snow, mucky cars, and quite frankly a break from the -30 weather that we were subjected to in...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Neighbour-Blindness
I’ve never really liked geraniums. I think because my grandmother had them on her front porch which was a kind of dark and damp place where daddy-long-legged...
Columnists - Steve King
Why THAT dog?
Whether you set a New Year’s resolution to like everyone or not, with the best will in the world it is extremely unlikely that you will in fact like everyone...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
A City of Makers
What do you make? This is a question that our community, Lake Ridge Community Church, is discussing together we start the New Year. It’s a question that can...
Columnists - Leela Aheer
MLA report January 24
Hello Chestermere! Happy New Year, Happy Lohri, Pongal, Sankranti, Maha Shivratri and Happy Lunar New Year, Year of the Metal Rat. We honour these joyous...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Brazilian Wine
When we think about wines from South America, Malbec from Argentina and Carménère from Chile are the ones that immediately come to mind, but there is a wine...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Whisky and Bagpipes
Like many Canadians, I can claim some small portion of Scottish ancestry. While I may not boast Groundskeeper Willie levels of Scottish-ness, I do regularly...
