Columns

Tomorrow represents the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, the city of Nagasaki suffered a similar fate.

Sometimes ugly memories from one’s past surge back into view. This past week featured extensive media coverage of an incident that happened on July 30, 1974, when an exploding grenade on an army base in Quebec killed six cadets.

I recently got back from a vacation to Jamaica for which I was the official photographer. Over the span of a week, I took about 500 shots of various vistas, landscapes, fauna, and friends.

It’s easy to take water for granted. It falls from the sky, flows from the tap on command and can be seen in the abundance of lakes and rivers throughout our province.

The Your Views section of the Gazette has published many letters written by citizens who have criticized our current city council. It has also published many letters written by people who support the job council is doing.

Is it time that we have an honest, frank discussion about Canada’s and Alberta’s, economies? Enough of the political pandering, the platitudes, from those self-interested parties; where is the statesperson who will lead us forward into a

Grexit is such a lovely catch word – named for a new product launched by Mad Men perhaps? It would seem easy to encapsulate the troubles in Greece into a neat little story.

Last Sunday marked the end of the women’s soccer championship – the U.S. women reigning victorious over Japan.

A series in the Edmonton Journal several months ago on the acute hospital situation in Alberta was very informative but I would have to say was somewhat urbancentric in its viewpoint.

As I write this column, Greece has, apparently, defaulted on its interest payments due to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).