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BEPPLE: Face time with local candidates important
Voting is only a very small part of democracy. The ability for groups to gather together to hear different viewpoints, discuss ideas, and raise concerns is another important part. It will never be that every single person in a community agrees with a decision, but having dialogue increases the chance of shared understanding and agreement...
POULSEN: Will a niqab decide this election?
Stephen Harper may start wearing a niqab so he can't be seen licking his lips over the monstrous misjudgement the other two parties have made on the issue. Can something as insignificant as a woman wearing a niqab at the citizenship swearing-in turn the election? Why not. The voters have been harassed by incomprehensible financial...
LOEWEN: A scotch and a cigar with a would-be prime minister
A bottle of Laphroaig and a Hoyo de Monterrey double corona. If you happen to be a sucker for fine Scotch and big, complex cigars, the aforementioned will evoke images of comfy, quilted cordovan leather easy chairs, and time well spent in conversation with the closest of friends. And the good fortune to know that,...
ANDERSON: Orange popsicles and the politics of fear
On my way to kindergarten one day a long time ago I witnessed one of those early lessons we sometimes remember for the rest of our lives. A welder was welding two pipes together beside a hole in the ground in the middle of a lawn, back in the days before it took three workers,...
PARKER: Short life, tall latte
Seasonal excitement has gotten out of control. It happened on a whole new level last year when the pumpkin spiced latte got its own hashtag and started trending, but even before pumpkin spice became the only thing nice, seasonal anticipation was starting to go overboard. There was the Christmas countdown app that everyone downloaded in...
JONESIE: The Irrelevance of local candidates and why you won’t vote for them
'THEY DON'T REPRESENT OUR RIDINGS TO PARLIAMENT. THEY REPRESENT THEIR PARTY TO OUR RIDINGS.' Yesterday, columnist Chuck Poulsen touched on a question I’ve been pondering for weeks now. He broke out some of the promises and numbers being thrown around by federal party leaders on the campaign trail and wonders how individual voters are supposed...
BEPPLE: Let them wear niqabs
I am part of the minority of Canadians who do not support a ban on the wearing of a niqab at the Canadian citizenship ceremony. The survey results, done earlier this year by Harper’s government, says the majority of people support having a woman remove her niqab during a citizenship ceremony. Harper and others are...
POULSEN: I don’t know who to vote for and I’m not alone
I asked a friend how she was going to vote. Her response astutely stated what many voters in this three-way tie are thinking. Here it is: “How am I going to vote? Oh, that is so difficult to say. “The trouble is that I just am not an ideologue. I cannot, on principle alone, support...
LOEWEN: My father’s death and life lived ‘under the sun’
“Your father died ten minutes ago.” The nurse’s terse conveyance over my smartphone left me dumb. The anticipated but dreaded call arrived mid-afternoon last Wednesday. I’d been on the road plying my workaday trade; and the whole way back from Fernie that day, I had been periodically interrupted by thoughts of my dying dad. How...
JONESIE: Do something productive and leave the driver alone
It’s hard to find perspective when a child dies.
PARKER: Fight Club: The new female extracurricular
There isn’t much that makes me squirm with discomfort. Apart from moths inside lampshades, unexpected penis pictures, the occasional episode of criminal minds and awkward small talk with old high school classmates, I’m pretty steadfast when it comes to most situations. More and more, however, I’m finding myself experiencing pangs of what can only be...