Category - Columnists

Columnists - Bruce McAllister

The responsible path forward

These are challenging times in our Province.  In fact these are challenging times locally as well.  You can hardly pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV and...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

In The Navy

In the words of those wise philosophers known as the Village People;  In the Navy, you can sail the seven seas!  In the Navy, drink all the rum you please...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

Stories and Trust

I like that saying, “You don’t fear people whose stories you know.” I have come to believe that listening brings people together and that...

Columnists - Bruce McAllister

Taking a balanced, measured approach

These are interesting days in the Alberta political scene. More importantly, these are immensely important days as we choose a responsible path forward for...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

Insured by Each Other

Not many years ago, a friend of mine lost her home to a fire here in Chestermere. A blaze broke out and she had to flee with her family and only a handful of...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

The Friendliest!!!

It was an open dirt patch on the edge of town, nothing more than a stripped-down field, really. Plows stood still along the edge while a lone digger puffed...

Columnists Local News - Nick Jeffrey

Hot Rocks

Your humble narrator went on one of those romantic weekend getaways to Vancouver last weekend. It was all going well until my lady friend found out that we...

Columnists - Preston Pouteaux

Feeling Seen

Years ago I lived in Vancouver, right near the University of British Columbia. Most mornings I would join the herd of students as we would all wait in the rain...


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