Author: Gateway Gazette Contributor

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Cooking Fish

    Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Cooking Fish

    By Reena Nerbas Cheesecake Dear Reena, I am having a dinner party, and would like to make cheesecake for dessert. Can you tell me if I can quadruple my cheesecake recipe and bake the cake in a large rectangle pan? Cherise Dear Cherise, Quadrupling the recipe is risky, chances are the cheesecake will brown on…

  • Conservatives Call for Unity Against Latest Trudeau Government Attack on Alberta’s Oil and Gas Industry

    Conservatives Call for Unity Against Latest Trudeau Government Attack on Alberta’s Oil and Gas Industry

    EDMONTON, AB: United Conservatives are calling for Members of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly to stand united against the federal Trudeau Liberal government’s Bill C-69, which would make it significantly more difficult for new pipeline projects to get approved, thereby jeopardizing a key driver of Alberta’s economy and the thousands of jobs that depend on it. In…

  • Riley on Bookish Pet Peeves

    Riley on Bookish Pet Peeves

    In this episode of Riley’s Reading Ramblings, the lively Riley J. Froud holds nothing back when it comes to bookish pet peeves!

  • NDP 2018-19 Budget: Ignoring Rural Albertans

    NDP 2018-19 Budget: Ignoring Rural Albertans

    Drew Barnes, United Conservative Finance Critic The biggest takeaway from the NDP’s 2018-19 Budget is that according to the NDP Albertans outside city limits don’t matter much. In Finance Minister Joe Ceci’s entire 3,800 word budget speech the issues that impact rural Albertans the most went ignored. For example, Alberta’s second and third largest resource-based industries,…

  • Faith Forum: The Good News…3 Days Later

    Faith Forum: The Good News…3 Days Later

    By Gloria Wessner Early on Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.  She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb,…

  • Canada Still Failing Wood Buffalo National Park A Year After UN Report

    Canada Still Failing Wood Buffalo National Park A Year After UN Report

    Fort McMurray, Alberta – On the anniversary of Environment Minister Catherine McKenna characterizing an international report that concluded governments have failed to protect Wood Buffalo National Park as a “call to action”, a coalition of Indigenous and environmental groups is still waiting for that action. The situation facing Canada’s largest National Park is dire. In 2017,…

  • Faith Forum: It Is Finished

    Faith Forum: It Is Finished

    By Gloria Wessner The words “it is finished” rang in her ears as Mary stumbled and tripped over the rocks on the hill at Golgotha. It couldn’t be, it just couldn’t be true what had just happened; but it was. There was the cross, with her friend hanging on it. His weary head now bent and…

  • Budget 2018 Proves NDP Out of Touch with Reality

    Budget 2018 Proves NDP Out of Touch with Reality

      (Edmonton) – The 2018/2019 budget shows this government continues to avoid having an honest conversation with Albertans. Their path to a balanced budget is built on so many rosy assumptions and projections that it cannot be considered a credible plan. Alberta Party Caucus leader Rick Fraser pointed out that the government isn’t treating Albertans with…

  • 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…

  • Proposed AISH Act Changes Allow Financial Security

    Proposed AISH Act Changes Allow Financial Security

    New legislation would ensure that parents and guardians have more options to plan for the long-term financial needs of family members with disabilities. If passed, The Act to Strengthen Financial Security for Persons with Disabilities would amend current Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) legislation to allow families, guardians and AISH recipients to set up trusts…

  • A Meatless Canada? No, But We’re Becoming More Discerning

    A Meatless Canada? No, But We’re Becoming More Discerning

    A recent poll by Dalhousie University suggests that our food choices are becoming more varied By Sylvain Charlebois Senior Fellow Atlantic Institute for Market Studies Canadians love meat but other sources of protein are emerging as potent alternatives. Demand is up for vegetable proteins like pulses, as well as for fish and seafood. Loblaw has…

  • 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!

  • CASS / Alberta Education Annual Learning Conference, March 21 – 23 in Edmonton

    CASS / Alberta Education Annual Learning Conference, March 21 – 23 in Edmonton

    Superintendent Leadership Quality Standard is Focus of CASS / Alberta Education Conference (EDMONTON) – The 2018 Annual Learning Conference hosted by the College of Alberta School Superintendents (CASS) and Alberta Education will be held at the Chateau Lacombe on March 21 – 23, 2018. The focus of the Conference will be implementing the Superintendent Leadership…

  • Town of High River Seeks Feedback on Upcoming Cannabis Regulations

    Town of High River Seeks Feedback on Upcoming Cannabis Regulations

    HIGH RIVER, AB: The Town of High River Planning and Development Services Division has launched an online survey to collect feedback from the public and industry leaders on the upcoming cannabis regulations for High River. “Currently, the sale or production of cannabis for recreational use is not legal in Canada,” says Sarah Peck, Planner I for the…

  • Jason Kenney: Albertans Must Have Say on Carbon Tax

    Jason Kenney: Albertans Must Have Say on Carbon Tax

    Edmonton, AB – United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney today introduced Private Member’s Bill 202: The Alberta Taxpayer Protection (Carbon Tax Referendum) Amendment Act. “The NDP hid their job-killing carbon tax from voters in the last election. Now they’re hiding from voters their intention to keep raising it,” said United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney. “We’ve been clear that should…