Some thoughts on the Freedom Convoy 2022

February 8, 2022

MICHAEL RILEYStaff LIKE EVERYONE ELSE across the country, and around the worldfor that matter, I have been closely watching the Freedom Convoy 2022, the convoy of truckers that ...

COVID-19 treatment innovations welcome news

By MICHAEL RILEYStaff NEW DEVELOPMENTS ON treating COVID-19 are always welcome news, especially for those of us with aged parents, like myself, who are more vulnerable to ...

Cat and dog adoptions spike during the COVID-19 pandemic

MICHAEL RILEYStaff I SAW AN ARTICLE the other day in the Toronto Star saying that pet adoptions had increased quite a lot since the CDC declared COVID-19 a pandemic ...

Questions for the elected

By Nate Smelle It’s 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 11 and the temperature outside is a frightful -32°C. Logging onto my computer a bright red ...

Castles in the sand

By Nate Smelle For most of my life I have been an advocate of free speech. While covering the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two ...

Celebrating 2022 and beyond

By Nate Smelle According to our understanding of human history, some 4,000 years ago, ancient Babylonians became the first people to celebrate the arrival of ...

Time-tested truth and understanding

By Nate Smelle With a pair of deadlines looming heavily each week, time fades away fast. Individual days are absorbed by weeks which inevitably end ...

Use what you have

By Chris Drost I believe it was Theodore Roosevelt who first said, “use what you have,” although I can only imagine it was a common ...

A matter of priority

NATE SMELLEStaff FOR THE MAJORITY of the past few months talk in the media and throughout pop culture regarding the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted away ...