Columns

Two weeks ago, I had a drive that, to me, sums up what it’s like to commute around St. Albert. I simply took Sir Winston Churchill Avenue from one end to the other.

Bellerose Composite High School grad Rob Deltombe wants to make sure that cancer is stopped in the muddiest way possible. The former St.

The recent decision of the Alberta Human Rights Commission in Mihaly and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) certainly raises cause for concern amongst all professional associations in Alberta, and in fact a

A few unrelated events over the last month require some discussion. The first issue involves the zoo in Edmonton’s river valley.

As the present near-war between Russia and Ukraine demonstrates, replacing a single multi-ethnic country with two or more separate ethnic states does not solve all the problems of ethnic tension.

The graduating class of 2014 has always lived in the shadow of 9/11. For those students graduating from high school this June, their entire education has been in a world that was forever changed by the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.

When I moved from the Maritimes to Alberta in the early ’90s, I found it particularly interesting that so many folks queried me about the origin of my surname.

The Winter Olympics are now part of the history books. However, while this celebration of global unity was happening, the gruesome civil war in Syria has continued unabated.

As a vast country, Canada has always struggled with the ideal of national unity, which has led to the creation of national symbols to bring us together. The most obvious ones are our flag, our anthem, and, as the Winter Olympics showed, our hockey.

The first commentary that I penned 11 years ago this month for the St. Albert Gazette was entitled “Marijuana – The Fun Drug”. Except, of course, it wasn’t.