Category - Columnists

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

A Celtic Blessing in Darker Times

While Saint Patrick’s Day was a bit of a wash this year, landing as it did right in the thick of the early days of this pandemic, I found myself on a rabbit...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Drawing a Blanc

The hot weather last week had me switching from red wines to chilled whites, kept in an ice bucket next to my patio chair so I could while away the weekend in...

Columnists - Steve King

Living with a service dog

When life unexpectedly deals you a bad hand, how do you cope? Councillor Mel Foat experienced this in 2013 when a routine cataract operation culminated in him...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

T-Bagging

Long time readers may recall me waxing poetic about the Reinheitsgebot, also known as the Bavarian Beer Purity Law of 1516, which decreed water, barley, and...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

What is a street for?

I must have been going a million miles an hour, and I probably hit the ramp with at least the force of a locomotive, because when I hit the ground and rolled...

Columnists - Leela Aheer

MLA report July 30

Hello Chestermere-Strathmore: I hope you were able to enjoy some sunshine this past weekend without the threat of huge hail stones raining down, or tornado...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

End Of A Dry Century

Faithful readers may recall that I have often waxed poetic about the various failed attempts throughout North America to ban the demon liquor.  Our Yankee...

Columnists - Leela Aheer

MLA report July 23

Hello Chestermere-Strathmore: I want to start off this column by reminding everyone in our beautiful riding that as we return to some sort of normalcy with...

Columnists - Martin Shields

WE Charity scandal

You’ve likely heard by now about the Prime Minister’s latest ethics scandal – the WE charity debacle.  In case you missed it, here are the facts we know...

Columnists - Steve King

Dogs’ sense of touch

Of all the senses a dog has, the one most similar to humans’ is the sense of touch. It is also only one of three senses that are present at birth: the other...


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