Category - Columnists

Columnists - Steve King

What dogs dislike (Part 2)

So let’s continue with our 2-part series on what dogs dislike. Being made to interact with dogs they don’t like: like any other human, there are people I like...

Columnists - Leela Aheer

MLA report February 27

Hello Chestermere Anchor readers! I have just about warmed up again after the Polar Plunge this weekend in support of the Special Olympics. Please join me in...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Albeerta Advantage

Faithful readers may recall tales of me crying tears into my beer last year, with the announcement of the closure of Fort McMurray’s Wood Buffalo Brewing last...

Columnists - Martin Shields

End the Blockades

Over the past few weeks in Canada, one issue has been front and center – the Wet’suwet’en blockades that plunged our country into a national crisis. We watched...

Columnists - Steve King

What dogs dislike (Part 1)

This week and next we’ll be exploring the area of things humans do that dogs dislike. Sometimes people do or say things to us that we simply don’t like. With...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

What to do with nice things

A few years ago I was given a very pricey bottle of scotch. It was an unexpected surprise that threw me off a bit. So I called the friend who gave it to me to...

Columnists - Steve King

Year of the Dog

Now I know that in Chinese culture we have just began the year of the rat but for me every year is the year of the dog, more particularly the year of the...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

Trying On New Words

Talking to others is a kind of dance towards deeper trust and respect. How we talk requires a lot of attention and care that our mind calculates, on the fly...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Up Your Alley

Change is afoot in the Alberta beer scene.  Faithful readers may recall that Calgary-based Wild Rose Brewery was acquired by megabrewer Sleeman Brewing last...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Big Leagues For Banded Peak

Faithful readers may recall that Calgary-based Wild Rose Brewery was acquired by megabrewer Sleeman Brewing last summer, and that I had made a prediction that...