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...
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Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
A Celtic Blessing in Darker Times
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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