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Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Bock To The Future
Columnists - Chantelle de Jonge
Budget 2025
Alberta’s population is growing at an unprecedented pace, and that means more students are filling classrooms across the province. To keep up with this rising...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Blame It On Rio
The biggest street party in the world has come and gone for another year, with Carnaval wrapping up just a few days ago. For those unfamiliar with Carnaval, it...
Columnists - Elaine and Don Cassidy
Do Moose & Deer Help Birds?
While Elaine and I were walking through the wonderfully treed pathways of Griffith Woods in west Calgary this month, we saw a set of fresh moose tracks and a...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Bully for Barbaresco
While browsing the aisles of my local bottle shop, I came across a Barbaresco wine that I remembered fondly from last year’s vacation to Italy, so I naturally...
Columnists - Elaine and Don Cassidy
He’s Diving in the Buff!
The smallest of Canada’s diving ducks, and perhaps the scarcest one in the nation as well, the Bufflehead is truly a striking wildfowl species. Known as a sea...
Columnists - Chantelle de Jonge
Budget 2025
Last week, Alberta’s government introduced Budget 2025 with the theme “Meeting the Challenge”. As Alberta navigates economic uncertainty and a rapidly growing...
Columnists - Vamini Selvanandan
Albertans deserve better health care now
Over half a million Albertans don’t have a family doctor, stressed families are waiting for hours in the emergency room with sick children, and frail seniors...
Columnists - Chantelle de Jonge
Alberta’s government is advancing a midwifery strategy
Alberta’s government is advancing a midwifery strategy to attract more midwives and improve access to maternal health services across Alberta. As of January...
Columnists - Elaine and Don Cassidy
Taking a Tern on the Dance Floor
While fly fishing from a float tube in the early 1990s on East Dollar Lake, located north of Valleyview, Alberta, I was fortunate enough to witness two...



