It was appropriate that as Mental Health Awareness Month wrapped up on May 31, that focus, resolve and feelings towards the pandemic was tested to the max. 

During May, I was privileged to do some indigenous-themed stories including a feature on a documentary film which captured Kainai High School programming as well as talking to Farica Prince an inspector/administrator with the Blood Tribe Police Service in regards to systemic racism in polici…

Mental health has come a long way to being understood by those affected and those who are not in Canada. However, there is still a long way to go in both the general public and how it is portrayed in media. 

In downtown Medicine Hat sits an empty grey building which used to have traffic run through it, with large buses with a silver greyhound stamped on the side. 

In downtown Medicine Hat sits an empty grey building which used to have traffic run through it, with large buses with a silver greyhound stamped on the side. 

Canadian Mental Health Association Week which was observed from May 3-9 had themes and messages such as “Name it, don’t numb it” and “#GetReal about how you feel.”

This may seem like a “well, duh” statement but as much as the Alberta Provincial government can complain about transfer payments to other provinces, and saying Justin Trudeau is a hypocrite saying the carbon tax isn’t a tax but an investment into the environment; the provincial government is…

Last week, the federal government announced a cornerstone of their budget would be a Canada-wide child care system that would cost parents as little as $10 a day.

Sometimes in the newspaper industry when reporters or editors are rushed, proofreading is rushed and errors are made. A missed comma, a typo, a spelling mistake, grammatical errors are left exposed and while they are in excusable, they sometimes happen due to time.

There is something to be said about creating an environment of trust or giving hope to people. Or not.

There used to be a view held about volunteer fire departments that these were just quasi social clubs which contributed to their communities and went to the odd emergency but never really got the respect they deserved.

Growing up, I had a friend who had an interesting perspective on getting cracked windshields on gravel roads in rural Saskatchewan. He said the best way to not get a cracked windshield was to drive extra fast on the roads and then that way no rocks would hit it. 

There is no doubt Covid-19 has hurt us all all in some manner. 

There is no doubt Covid-19 has hurt us all all in some manner. 

Religion is a subjective thing. Because a variety of religious doctrines are all different, conflict arises. Today, many feel persecuted by other religions, government and individuals.

By Ryan Dahlman 

Notice how Albertans haven’t heard much from the NDP and Rachel Notley lately? You don’t hear anything else from the other opposition parties because they don’t exist.

People are suffering across Canada. Pick a province and everyone has some hurting happening, much of it due to the havoc Covid-19 has been wreaking on people’s heath with the after-affects with the livelihoods. People struggling financially is commonplace, many small businesses are backed in…

I talked to a colleague once about literacy and he said within five years, the English language will cease to exist as we know it. 

Coal mining has been a consistent energy source for hundreds of years: whether fueling something as small as a house stove, to trains to multi-million dollar generators, coal has been a source of employment, relatively inexpensive heart and a pillar of the Canadian economy. It is cheap, simp…

It is hard to put into words at best, how poor the optics look on this whole Alberta ministers traveling outside of Alberta controversy. 

This time should be a celebration of all that we are thankful for from the past year, no matter what your spiritual beliefs are. 

It’s a choice: plain and simple. 

Hey… did you know that Kyle McIntyre is no longer the Director of Education for the Chinook School Division in southwest Saskatchewan? 

This Christmas season is going to be a special treat for those late shoppers coming home at night of the Winter Solstice.

To say there is political and social turmoil in Alberta would qualify somewhere between a gross understatement and an emphasized “well duh”.

Here in the Great White North, residents north of the 49th parallel sat in their living rooms, wearing our toques and Team Canada jerseys sipping on our Molson or Timmies, with our bowl of popcorn, feeling pretty smug as we watched a deranged Donald Trump do his best imitation of a spoiled f…

The issue of drunk driving and people running for political office came up again in Saskatchewan last week as two separate stories regarding candidates and their run-ins with the law.

There it was Oct. 9, tweeted out in the morning and the MLA for Calgary-Acadia showed one more time why he is that one guy on your team that just can’t help himself but get into trouble. 

The civic and provincial elections are coming up in Saskatchewan. For many people, elections are source of pride and honour as they do their best to help contribute to the wellbeing of their respective communities. 

It is a scary time in Alberta. There’s constantly negativity in regards to politics on every level; people are losing their jobs, federal assistance funding is running out for others who took it as a way of supplementing themselves when COVID hit and house foreclosures and repossessions of o…

During the cold war between the former Soviet Union and USA 1947 to 1991, an explosion of sci-fi films filled the movie houses of America. Check out this short documentary on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBY1_3O6MFc but in post world war 2, patrons had a hunger for aliens, UFOs and art…

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Twitter. Facebook. Instagram. TikTok. 

World Wide Suicide Prevention Day should mean a lot to a lot more people. 

One of the reasons why children’s camps are so successful is that everyone is put on equal footing. Whether you come from an affluent home or a destitute background, the outdoors doesn’t care. Who can adapt, who wants to learn skills not found in the city or maybe even the farm and who will …

Union wise especially, teachers and those in the health care were always kindred spirits. Joined to together in providing critical service to the public, have strong union presence and generally a respected part of Alberta. Now, it is more of a case of misery loves company.

To wear or not to wear, that is the question…

It is difficult to keep up with all the provincial political news that is going in Alberta. 

 A  lot of society’s ills are because of passing judgment on others using poorly-based, preconceived or just flat out bereft of actual facts to make bad decisions.

 Really? How did they decide what to do?

One hears of giving seniors who are living in care homes the dignity and quality care they deserve. 

It would be easy to say Tommy Douglas would be horrified at what is going on in health care, pandemic or no pandemic, the times are a changing in health. 

For many of us, social media plays various roles in our lives. A platform to exchange information and ideas, social media allows to communicate for better or worse.