Category: Voices

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 26 – April 2, 2018

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 26 – April 2, 2018

    by Eric Francis Coppolino ARIES — This may well be one of the most unusual and distinctive times in your life, if you would only notice. The difficulty in noticing is that the world is so chaotic, and at the same time, our lives are all so densely packed with activity and so-called information that…

  • Letter to the Editor: Liberal Peacekeeping Plan

    Letter to the Editor: Liberal Peacekeeping Plan

    Dear Editor, This week, the Liberal government announced a 12 month United Nations mission which will include a detachment of helicopters and Canadian troops sent to the west African nation of Mali. Justin Trudeau is failing to tell Canadians the truth about the situation he is sending our troops into. Canadians deserve to know about the risks…

  • From My Bookshelf: Anita Rau Badami

    From My Bookshelf: Anita Rau Badami

    By Lynn Willoughby The Hero’s Walk ~ Anita Rau Badami The setting for this novel is a small town in India with sweltering heat and wild monsoons. It is the story of four generations – their heartaches, their dreams, their kindness and their selfishness. The large family home all occupy is falling down around them.…

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Furnace Filters

    Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Furnace Filters

    By Reena Nerbas Extra Buttons Dear Reena, Many of the jackets and suits that I buy are sold with an extra button. Apart from storing the button in the jacket pocket, do you have any suggestions as to how to organize apparel buttons without losing them? Mandy Dear Mandy, One option is to sew the…

  • Lex Monoxide: Apple Pie Moonshine

    Lex Monoxide: Apple Pie Moonshine

    The Apple (pie) of My (bloodshot) Eye – It’s time to shine… Apple Pie Moonshine! Feared food writer, notorious restaurant reviewer and cut-throat culinarian Lex Monoxide is your guide to food, booze and ranting reviews!

  • Pipelines are Crucial to National Prosperity

    Pipelines are Crucial to National Prosperity

    The battle between Alberta and B.C. over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has broad implications for all Canadians By Steve Lafleur and Ashley Stedman The Fraser Institute The governments of Alberta and British Columbia are waging an intense trade dispute over the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which would run between Edmonton and Burnaby. But…

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 19 – 26, 2018

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 19 – 26, 2018

    by Eric Francis Coppolino ARIES — The Sun is about to enter your sign, and take you on a most interesting journey through the physical world. You have had more than enough of fantasy and imagining. You’ve experienced the interior of your mind in some delightful ways, and now it’s time to bust free, into…

  • 10 Tips on Beating the Winter Blues

    10 Tips on Beating the Winter Blues

    Depending on where you live—New York City versus Los Angeles—winter will either be something you dread or something that passes you by without noticing. Sometimes even people who live in the warmer states like California, experience cyclical changes that affect their moods and disposition. This can go twice for people living even farther north like…

  • Time to Get Serious About Water Quality in First Nation Communities

    Time to Get Serious About Water Quality in First Nation Communities

    Solving this seemingly intractable problem should be quite simple, but simply increasing funding will only make the problems worse By Joseph Quesnel Research associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy Pondering the crisis so many First Nations communities face over water quality, you can’t help but think of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel…

  • From My Bookshelf: James Anderson

    From My Bookshelf: James Anderson

    By Lynn Willoughby Lullaby Road ~ James Anderson I really liked Anderson’s first book, “The Never-Open Desert Diner” so was looking forward to reading this one. It did not disappoint. There were many references to the characters and locale of the first book, so it is best to read them in sequence. The high desert…

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Yellowing Lino

    Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Yellowing Lino

    By Reena Nerbas Thermos in the Dishwasher Dear Reena, I recently purchased a stainless-steel thermos with foil wrapped around the exterior. Although the instructions say, “dishwasher safe” the foil peeled after four washes. Now, the foil is half gone and looks unappealing (pardon the pun). Should I toss the thermos or is there a remedy…

  • Ask Biella: “I want smart friends, what’s a good way to do that?”

    Ask Biella: “I want smart friends, what’s a good way to do that?”

    Ask Biella Listen HereRead Below . . . Publisher’s Note Ask Biella is our newest Feature Content provided by a Contemporary Philosopher and Writer. The purpose and intent of this feature is to provide readers with an opportunity to ask a wide variety of life-based questions. Think “Dear Abby,” but with more emphasis on life…

  • Trade Wars, Food Fights and a Budget that Ignores it All

    Trade Wars, Food Fights and a Budget that Ignores it All

    Duties may look like attractive, simple mechanisms to protect domestic interests. But they’re a very expensive way to retain jobs By Sylvain Charlebois Senior Fellow Atlantic Institute for Market Studies The ugly face of protectionism is slowly making its way across the globe. With trade wars looming on several fronts, including in the agri-food sector,…

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 12 – 19, 2018

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: March 12 – 19, 2018

    BY ERIC FRANCIS COPPOLINO ARIES — If there’s one solution to all problems, it is: proceed with irreverence. Make sure you notice the utterly ridiculous social conventions people are expected to follow, then do what you want. There may be some use (to others) in what seems useless (to you), and this may be about…

  • From My Bookshelf: James Anderson

    From My Bookshelf: James Anderson

    By Lynn Willoughby The Never-Open Desert Diner ~ James Anderson Ben is a humble, honest, hard working, very kind truck driver.  He has been delivering goods along his stretch of 117 in Utah for over twenty years.  He know everyone, their habits, their secrets, their personalities.  He lives alone in this remote desert region where the…