Category - Columnists

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Think Globally & Drink Locally

Canada Day was a more somber affair than usual this year. Rather than a day of Bob & Doug McKenzie jokes about hosers while swilling beer in the back...

Columnists - Jai Murugan

(muck)

On an occasionally cruel spring, prairie weather created hidden flat patches of dodgy ice in the barnyard. Poor urbanite brethren missed out on such rich...

Columnists - Patricia Matthews

Mayors Message – July 2013

While Chestermere wasn’t directly impacted by the flooding disaster that hit so many of our neighbours we did feel some of the panic and uncertainty here...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

High Waters at Highwood

Despite the dire warnings of my Sunday-school teacher, who warned me away from the licentious lifestyle of liquor and loose ladies, I do not believe the recent...

Columnists - Jai Murugan

(huff)

Huffs are almost necessary in the unwavering practise of ahimsa. (Sanskrit for non-violence, the Gandhian choice of warfare weaponry, whereby the war advocates...

Columnists - Tricia Ingram

Small Trees

A growing concern in many residential areas and towns is the desire to plant trees, but something that doesn’t grow too overly large or take up too much...

Columnists - Jai Murugan

(Host)

I don’t have the mouth, voice endurance, will, compulsiveness, or spontaneity to be a radio talk-show host. The one time I called in I almost panicked...

Columnists - Mansoor Ladha

Calgary copes with flood-ravaged city

Most of us are lucky that we haven’t seen or experienced wars, but what Calgary and southern Alberta residents went through was no worse than being in a...


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