Columns

Help! My tomato plants have turned into compost junkies and I cannot get them off the good stuff. Though the plants exist in a nice warm place against the house and are living in super rich soil, the blasted things don't have any fruit. These plants truly are lushes, living off the nitrogen in the soil without any useful production.

I was flabbergasted when I read the headline in a recent edition of the Gazette – “CRB wants ring road off the books.

In 1963, the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company was getting ready to celebrate their 20th anniversary. To commemorate this event, the company asked their publications editor, Don Fabun, to assemble a book based “on the future.

In June 2005 the North Saskatchewan River was high and rising. A few more inches and the water would be over the banks into Edmonton’s Riverdale community.

It doesn’t take much effort to be polite. But you’d never know it travelling around in these parts.

Earlier this month, I had opportunity to experience both Canada Day and the American fourth of July festivities through the lens of the splendorous Caribbean Island nation, St. Lucia. St.

Last month, the Northern Gateway pipeline was approved by the Harper government. In response, many First Nations people swore they would never support the pipeline being built through their lands.

Exploitation – it is a sad reality of the human condition. Not unlike war, famine, or disease, it is something that has always afflicted mankind. People have always used others to advance their own economic and social wellbeing.

Summer has finally arrived and we are halfway through a year in which, with the best efforts of just about everyone, failures in political judgment and action are epidemic. Canada has a largely absentee prime minister.

Though delayed six months, the highly anticipated Watch Dogs is worth the wait. Beautifully sculpted vistas are a joy to behold and explore while the hacking adds a unique element to the already exciting and fun formula.