Healthy living for a lifetime
As a young person who is very health conscious, I am appalled at Toban Wiebe’s letter of Sept. 30 (“Ask a health and fitness specialist”;…
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All your lanes belong to us
Have you ever been hit by a car? I have. In fact, I’ve been hit four times; three times while riding my bike. My most…
What would Gretzky do?
I recently drove to Minneapolis to hear Kevin Smith, of Clerks fame, give a three-hour talk on whatever was on his mind. The topic of…
Citizen of the world, citizen of “nowhere”
Every summer, a period of intense reminiscing occurs for me after I visit places around the world, such as a place that I mistakenly call…
Communal living means always having to say: “you’re sorry”
An open letter to the people downstairs, who keep smoking pot and cigarettes in the house: Did you think I wouldn’t notice? Well, did you?…
Simply a good guy
Take it from a guy who served sandwiches at the Legislature; one of the candidates for premier is, quite simply, a good guy. Now that…
What do you do with a problem like Gitmo?
Pop quiz. You have 245 suspected terrorists and enemy combatants housed 90 miles off the shore of the largest “democracy” in the world. They are…
Idiot or liar?
Our prime minister, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, addressed the leaders of the 20 richest nations on earth in Pittsburg on September 25. Reuters reported…
The power of the dirty
When it comes to rich countries’ businesses infringing on developing countries’ rights in order to reach their self-interested and lucrative gains, there is a repetitive…
Why are you here?
“If you don’t love it, leave it.” — Merle Haggard I was riding the 60 to the university the other day, and I had the…