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Potatoes to poppies

Potatoes to poppies

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 43 Poppy Chair Margaret Storey says a few words in front of the cenotaph in front of city hall on Friday morning during a cermony to open the Royal Candian Legion’s 2020 Poppy Campaign.
Using art as self-therapy

Using art as self-therapy

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to hit your head to develop a brain injury. Seven years ago local resident Cody Stump was working as a longshoreman in Vancouver.
Armenian genocide making a comeback

Armenian genocide making a comeback

When teaching history, it is rare that an issue more than 100 years old becomes a current events lesson, but that is what happened as I began teaching about the Armenian genocide.
Nursing career brought many adventures

Nursing career brought many adventures

Doreen (Stone) McFarlane, one of four children was born in Vermillion, Alta in 1933. She was raised on a farm and attended the local country school then completed Grade 12 in Vermillion.
Health, money and the pursuit of happiness

Health, money and the pursuit of happiness

I feel old. For the second time in a month I have pulled a muscle in my back leaving me sore, stiff and walking like an old man.
The moon’s water secret revealed

The moon’s water secret revealed

“Giant steps are what you take … walking on the moon.” Or so sang the Police in 1979. Of course, now they might sing “splashing on the moon.” Not really. Last week, NASA confirmed for the first time the presence of water on the sunlit lunar surface.
Political beliefs shouldn’t trump democracy

Political beliefs shouldn’t trump democracy

Honest debate is critical to any healthy democracy. I do not fault political rivals for formulating arguments that support their causes and counter those that their opponents offer.
Trump in the high castle

Trump in the high castle

Let’s have some morbid Halloween fun. In 1963, Philip K. Dick wrote The Man In The High Castle, a book set in a world where Germany and Japan won the Second World War and the United States has been divided between those two world superpowers.
Conversion therapy for conservatives

Conversion therapy for conservatives

Many residents have taken to social media to express their outrage over Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP Bob Zimmer’s vote on Wednesday in the House of Commons against the bill to ban conversion therapy.
Riding the flood of new technology

Riding the flood of new technology

They say that time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed by will never pass again.