Opinion

Dear Editor: The Liberals and NDP are trying to make a wedge issue of the right of Muslim women alone to choose their dress.

Dear Editor: Contraction pains grip you as you settle into your hospital room so crowded that there is little room to walk with the curtains pulled around the beds. It is crowded, hot and stuffy.

Welcome to Week CLIII of ‘Fishing Parkland Shorelines’. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

What is soil? Soil isn’t just for holding plants in place.

And so the debate begins. Fully autonomous weapon systems (or killer robots as they are being called by opponents) are no longer a thing of science fiction.

I’ll get my sports rant out of the way first this week as I watched the Winnipeg Jets lose a close one goal game to Anaheim on Saturday night.

Once again, the Conservative government is offside with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the majority of Canadians.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Randy Brenzen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

Beijing’s 21-million residents live in a toxic fog of particulate matter, ozone, sulphur dioxide, mercury, cadmium, lead and other contaminants, mainly caused by factories and coal burning.

If we were having tea right now, I’d bring out a book to show you: I found it the other day in one of my garden book piles, and it got me all excited to get planting! The book is called “Creative Containers” by Paul Williams: it has beautiful photos,