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With the London Olympics rapidly approaching, I was thinking about the intensive training and practice these athletes endure, often for years, in pursuit of Olympic glory and fame, both for their nation and for themselves.

William Shakespeare was blunt about rulers’ ingratitude towards their wounded soldiery.

Sexual education today focuses on the physical elements of sexual activity including the use of contraception, avoidance of sexually transmitted diseases and legal issues.

Zellers closing-out sale is truly missing the Target! Sales, deals and bargains are intriguing.

Why is Canada a member of the United Nations? Why is Canada a member of any international political organization, for that matter? According to Paul Martin, a former prime minister, it is so our voices can be heard at the table, that we might encoura

I have been following the 2012 Quebec student protests with personal interest. My first experience with student protests was in 1957 when the Montreal Transportation Commission decided to raise the bus ticket cost from 13 cents to 15 cents.

The time has come when we start talking reduction instead of production. Specifically, reduction of St. Albert’s waste stream instead of how much we have produced. This is a significant change in the conversation.

In 1994, the federal Liberal government of Jean Chretien introduced an omnibus bill in Parliament that not only implemented that year’s budget, but also tried to amend several other laws at once.

In the late 1990s I worked as an office manager for an accounting firm in downtown Edmonton. One afternoon I was given the task of collecting computer and voicemail passwords from all the staff in the firm.

How much should a pilot get paid if she never flies a plane? How about a doctor who never treats a patient? Or a car salesman who fails to sell a single car? If you answered zero, you live in the real world.