Category - Columnists

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...

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Ginger Beers for Ginger Dears

The world can be an unpredictable place for those who are red of of hair. Sometimes they get burned at the stake for witchcraft, and sometimes they are 3rd in...

Columnists - Jai Murugan

(Tuba)

The kids in band class who choose the tuba must be verging on insecurity, insanity, and reverse introversion. Like the irony of giant men in Volkswagen...


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