Columns

Imagine if you will, a local student parking his older, somewhat rusty bicycle where his peers can see it.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana This past week marked one of the greatest tragedies in Canadian mining history.

As many of you know, our American cousins have been busy observing the 150th anniversary of their Civil War. These observances will continue to April, 2015, a date that marks the original surrender of the Confederate forces.

While German bombers were pounding Britain in late 1941, writer George Orwell cast a discerning eye over the England he wanted to prevail.

It had been a challenging fall in 2006, and our family was working hard at trying to make ends meet.

Believe it or not, one of the features that still comes standard with most makes of vehicles is an ashtray. By definition, an ashtray is a receptacle where ash and butts from cigarettes are to be deposited and later disposed of.

In the May 8 edition of the Edmonton Journal, David Staples talked about Edmonton’s seeming obsession with what he called “Big Shiny Thing-itis”, the obsession some Edmontonians have for building huge, fancy buildings, many of which

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance but tyranny! It is that idea that if we do not educate ourselves, if we do not question what has gone before us, we are doomed to believe what others tell us to believe, giving them a certain power over us.

The recent reaction by municipal politicians to the idea of amalgamation of their respective communities into a greater Edmonton has been entirely predictable to the point of wry amusement.

On April 8th this year, the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), whose members are instructors of east European and certain Asian languages, published on its home page a statement from Dr. Lynda Park, ASEEES president.