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Curling: you know, that sport, with rocks — really heavy rocks — brooms and played on ice. Not any kind of ice, you see. No. It has, above all...
Dear 2025: Canadians with disabilities need your help. But, perhaps, come to think of it, Canadians without disabilities need more help. I am at a...
Dear Santa: I’ll bet you have been busy ever since Canada Post got back to work. I hope you’re not too overwhelmed. I look forward to our annual...
Well, now: that was sure with a five-year intermission. The Edmonton Singing Christmas Tree returned last week, with a different look and feel, in...
There was something, on that Sunday in 2019, just before the day’s 16th hour chimed, when hundreds of people rose to their feet to serve a most...
I finally have, painfully, figured it out: I am insane. Guilty as charged. Because if we study the words of one Albert Einstein “Insanity is when...
I am sure beyond the shadow of a doubt Ed Hervey becoming the Edmonton Elks vice-president of football operations happened in the same week Tim...
So — every sentence in the free world begins with the word so, so why not this journalistic experience? — here I am, mere weeks away from my 66th...
Nick Lees was a reporter’s reporter, first and foremost. I’ll never forget, in 1987, when Rick Hansen wheeled his Man in Motion Tour into Edmonton,...
David Foster has never forgotten where he has come from. He also remembers, quite fondly, of the stops along the way to Los Angeles to begin his...
The media corps walked down the hallway of Rogers Place Friday morning after Edmonton Oilers morning skate: a thoroughfare of people, bordered with...
For those of us who love reminiscing about those precious good old days, fundraising events and life itself don’t work in such a reflective...
During a coffee chat last weekend, my friend mentioned something I have, for some time, thought was a good way of thinking. I hadn’t grasped the...
Don’t touch that dial has been coming out of radio stations for decades: a casual plea from disc jockeys and newscasters for the listener to keep...
Just as Cindy Mosian has done for the last 41 years, she slowly sauntered from the kitchen of her second home with grace, with a smile of...
The Hockey Hall of Fame Room on the south side of Rogers Place is known for multi-million dollar announcements. There was one Thursday morning...
It would be too easy, and seriously flirting with obvious disrespect, to whiz into the EmployAbilities office on 109 Street, Wednesday, have a...
I was getting ready to pack my manual typewriter in the fall of 1979 for trips that took me to Calgary, Vancouver, Spokane, Wash., Los Angeles, Las...
Whenever we reach a milestone, we become reflective. Melancholy, too. And the question is obvious — what does the future look like and do I want to...
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Canada should appoint Greg and Jill McIntosh honorary summer vacation tour guides for their example in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics. It is...
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As a Radio and Television Arts student at NAIT in the late 1970s, one instructor made a comparison of which medium to a story the best. I’ll never...
You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. As a Radio and Television Arts student at NAIT in the...
Lori-Ann Muenzer sat still for a few seconds, a look of seriousness washed over her 58-year-old face, before, very slowly — almost mirroring...
A must-win game in the Canadian Football League in the middle of July might seem as strange as -30 C weather with a howling wind. Mind you, some...
You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. A must-win game in the Canadian Football League in the...