Opinion

Last week’s column on sunrises and sunsets from across Canada included a photo of a P.E.I. sunset by former Cochrane resident Joan MacRae. Calgary dentist Dr.

Recently, we have had some friends visiting from England. Phil, is an old friend from mining college and had visited me many years ago, when I worked in Yellowknife. His wife, Mandy, had never been to Canada.

“The world will be saved by beauty,” Dostoevsky so famously said. He must have had in mind the hope-filled beauty of the sunrises and sunsets we’ve been experiencing in Cochrane the past few days.

This week’s column is a multiple-choice quiz on Stoney Nakoda words that have appeared in these columns in recent years. See how you do in matching up the Stoney expression with the correct English translation. (Answers at the end; don’t peek.) 1.

There is the tradition among some of Canada’s First Nations for their leaders to gather around a sacred fire while making decisions for the wellbeing of their communities.