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Message to essential service workers
Posted on June 17, 2020Dear Editor, In honour of National Public Service Week (June 14-20), this message is to all our essential service workers, front-line responders, health care workers… Read More »
A hope that one day society will get things right
Posted on June 10, 2020Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” That thought is… Read More »
Support needed for black lives protesting in their fight for justice
Posted on June 10, 2020I’m writing this in response to the piece you published written by Hans Visser titled “Reflection on the murder of George Floyd.” I was disappointed… Read More »
We must remain vigilant as we re-open
Posted on June 3, 2020The “relaunch” in Alberta from the most strict of pandemic controls is no doubt welcome, but shouldn’t be considered as the beginning of the end,… Read More »
Reflection on the murder of George Floyd
Posted on June 3, 2020Some thoughts about the police killing of George Floyd, the riots in Minnesota, and political unrest in the U.S.A. and, yes, in Canada. As background,… Read More »
COVID-19: A Poem
Posted on June 3, 2020Do you have the virus, are you feeling ill. Do we stick you with a needle, or make you take a pill? Do you find… Read More »
Rural communities hit hard by COVID-19
Posted on May 27, 2020This is an op-ed written by Senator Pamela Wallin. Our small towns and rural communities across Canada are experiencing fallout from COVID-19 in unique and… Read More »
Viral void
Posted on May 27, 2020gloom grey days lean one on another in silence no birds sing holding back the Spring of Life shuttered minds in carpeted rooms make no… Read More »
“Pandemium” hampered by lack of data
Posted on May 27, 2020Last night, I caught this headline from the corner of my eye. I was closing my laptop and I did not bother reading it. It… Read More »
Internet giants should pay their share
Posted on May 20, 2020This is an op-ed written by News Media Canada chair Bob Cox. Newspapers have never been so loved — and never been so neglected. The… Read More »