Opinion

Recent outbreaks of bigotry-driven violence have prompted me to revisit two humanity-saving lessons I’ve learned from Stoney Nakoda First Nations elders at Morley over the years.

What price tag would you put on safety? How about inclusivity? When children go to school, society wants and expects certain things.

The Quarry is one of the most remarkable reversals of an environmental disaster that a town could hope for.

Tami Anderson, a morale-boosting workplace consultant, chatted with me over coffee the other day and treated me once more to a Cup of Light for my soul. Actually, it also involved Chai – no, not the tea, but her beautiful horse named Chai.

When I was a kid, the first thing I’d do whenever the newspaper arrived was flip it open to the centre and delight myself in its full page of fabulous photos.

For the past two weeks, our 13-year-old granddaughter, Autumn, has been staying with us. She has come from the small town of Moose Creek, on the outskirts of Ottawa.

“Sunrise, sunset – swiftly flow the days,” the song from Fiddler on the Roof goes. It seems just yesterday when Andrew Pyon became pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Cochrane, but it was actually three years ago.