Category: Voices

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Cleaning White Towels and Wedding Dress

      By Reena Nerbas Mystery Marks on White Towels Hi Reena, Last year I purchased new white towels for my remodeled bathroom. They are Calvin Klein and lovely, but a few washes in they started sprouting grey blob shaped spots, especially on the hand towels. At first I thought it was my daughter’s toothpaste staining…

  • Evidence Points to Big, Undiscovered Planet

    Evidence Points to Big, Undiscovered Planet

    By David Rosen & Eric Francis Coppolino It’s not every day that a new planet announces its existence, but that depends on what you mean by planet. Moons, asteroids, centaurs, comets and dwarf planets are discovered relentlessly. Nearly a million are known and catalogued, all objects orbiting our Sun. The great majority have been spotted…

  • Penguin Cam!

    Penguin Cam!

        Check out the penguins at the Vancouver Aquarium on their webcam as they splash, waddle and eat: http://www.vanaqua.org/learn/see-and-learn/live-cams/penguin The penguins at the Aquarium are African Penguins, sometimes called “black-footed” penguins. The live on the southern coast of Africa. Not all penguins live on the ice of Antarctica; of the 18 species of penguin only 4 live…

  • Planet Waves Monthly Horoscope for February, 2016

    Planet Waves Monthly Horoscope for February, 2016

    Your Monthly Horoscopes — and our Publishing Schedule Notes Your extended monthly horoscopes by Eric are published below in this issue. We published your extended monthly horoscopes for January on Wednesday, Dec. 23. Please note that instead of a Full Moon Moonshine horoscope this month, we will be publishing a New Moon Moonshine horoscope by Len…

  • Reel Reflections: Brooklyn

    Reel Reflections: Brooklyn

      Directed by – John Crowley Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Actress (Saoirse Ronan), and Best Screenplay based on Previously Published Material (Nick Hornby) By E. P. Whinters On the outside, Brooklyn seems like a simple love story – a young Irish girl immigrates to America in the 1950s, falls in love and needs to…

  • FSD Employee Prepares for Calgary Firefighter Stairclimb Challenge

    FSD Employee Prepares for Calgary Firefighter Stairclimb Challenge

    Facility Services Grounds Keeper Ryan Kaiser, who is also a Squad Leader with the Okotoks fire department (see photo top right), is once again participating in this event to raise funds for Wellspring Calgary to support firefighters and other citizens living with cancer. On May 1st, Ryan, a 15-year community firefighter, will don full firefighting…

  • Paul Pitcher, First Down Funding and Bret “Hitman” Hart; Tag Team Champions in Business

    Paul Pitcher, First Down Funding and Bret “Hitman” Hart; Tag Team Champions in Business

      WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – January, 2016) – A leading entrepreneur has joined forces with one of pro-wrestling’s bona fide legends to form an exciting new tag team in the world of corporate finance and business development. Paul Pitcher, who is a managing partner at First Down Funding, joins forces with actor, author and former WWE…

  • Cameron Lake Day Use Area Work

    Cameron Lake Day Use Area Work

    Restricted access in work zones during parking lot tree removal project Waterton Lakes National Park – As previously announced, Parks Canada will replace the Cameron Lake day use area facilities as part of the Federal Infrastructure Investments to Waterton Lakes National Park. The scope includes resurfacing the entire length of the Akamina Parkway, future flood mitigations,…

  • Halifax ‘Patio Police’ Win Red Tape Crown for Burdening Small Business

    Halifax ‘Patio Police’ Win Red Tape Crown for Burdening Small Business

      Federal border agency, Ontario recycling authority share CFIB Paperweight Award  Toronto, January 20, 2016 – On the third day of Red Tape Awareness Week™, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) announced the winners of its annual Paperweight Award, citing the worst examples of government agencies and departments at all levels that are holding…

  • GRPF January Park Talk: Kananaskis Bear Aversion Program

    GRPF January Park Talk: Kananaskis Bear Aversion Program

      Tuesday, January 26, 7pm Join Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park’s Randy Ramsden for a presentation about the “Kananaskis Bear Aversion Program”. In place since the late 1980s, this is the longest running grizzly bear aversion program in Canada. The program uses aversive conditioning to teach Grizzly Bears to avoid humans and vehicles. The ultimate goal…

  • Montana Sage-Grouse will Migrate North this Spring

    Montana Sage-Grouse will Migrate North this Spring

      The State of Montana will work with Alberta in translocating up to 40 sage-grouse this year to help stimulate population growth. The Alberta government applied to the State of Montana to translocate up to 40 sage-grouse hens to Alberta in early April. It is the first of three such possible transfers proposed over the…

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Mildew in Closed Up Homes

      By Reena Nerbas Mildew in Seasonal Homes Dear Reena, Have you any suggestions on how to prevent mildew from growing in closed mobile homes in Texas while we Snowbirds are back in Canada? Ours is closed up for 9 months every year. But very many had the same problem as it was so wet…

  • Bell Let’s Talk Day 2016 is January 27: Join the growing global conversation and support Canada’s mental health!

    Bell Let’s Talk Day 2016 is January 27: Join the growing global conversation and support Canada’s mental health!

      Bell Let’s Talk national spokesperson Clara Hughes welcomes everyone to the mental health conversation on the sixth annual Bell Let’s Talk Day On January 27, talk, text, tweet and share to fight the stigma and grow Bell’s funding for Canadian mental health – let’s beat the record Bell Let’s Talk Day participation in 2015!…

  • Calgary Mustard Seed: Students help our guests feel the warmth of the Christmas season

    Calgary Mustard Seed: Students help our guests feel the warmth of the Christmas season

    Children and teenagers living in and around Calgary are amazing. They are thoughtful, compassionate and generous. We see this on almost a daily basis during the month of December. That’s when students who have been collecting donations for people experiencing homelessness and poverty drop off socks and back packs at our downtown building. They are…

  • AUMA Announces New CEO

    AUMA Announces New CEO

      The AUMA Board is pleased to announce that Sue Bohaichuk has accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2016. “The Alberta Urban Municipalities Association Board was pleased to see many candidates of such a high caliber from across the country,” said Lisa Holmes, AUMA President. “I am proud to announce that…