Opinion

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - A Man Alive This may sound like a musical biography of the esteemed host of the CBC television program Man Alive, Roy Bonisteel, but it’s not. Although it may be just be as weird.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter to Jane Philpott, the federal Minister of Health, was sent last week by the chiefs of the Cote, Keeseekoose and The Key First Nations.

It seems a good time to ask the question, do candidates who do not participate in a campaign add anything to the political process? We see that as a seemingly increasing trend.

Maybe it’s only right that we are now taking a hard look at the personal lives of those seeking public office on April 4. Think of an election as a job interview.

With all of the events and sales that happened in the city, I decided it would be better to conduct my social experiment this weekend as opposed to the end of the month.

People garner celebrity by various means. Movies, music and sports are perhaps the big ones, but celebs may also come from the culinary world, science, business or any number of other disciplines.

Unintuitive compassion There are certain things that happen in the justice system that are counterintuitive. Last week, Patrick Reis, a Provincial Court judge, designated 31-year-old Ian Desjarlais a long-term offender (LTO).

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.

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