Category - Columnists

Columnists - Nick Jeffrey

Bock To The Future

Some of our more pious readers may be in the middle of observing Lent, those forty days of fasting and resisting temptations between the festival days of...

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 - 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...


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