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Mac Olsen On August 22, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the City of Burnaby’s legal challenge against the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project. This is a big win for Alberta’s petroleum industry but a dismayed Burnaby Mayor Derek…
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Joe McWilliams Stompin’ Tom Connors comes to Slave Lake next month. Not Tom himself, but his son Taw Connors, doing a tribute show at the Legacy Centre. People throw around terms like ‘Canadian icon’ a bit too freely, but good…
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Mac Olsen This is a subject I’ve written about before, but every so often video streaming is worth examining. First, I’ll put a plug in here about the Smoky River Express’ YouTube channel. I have been posting videos of local…
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Mac Olsen I won’t call it the politically correct name, ‘Cannabis’, I will always refer to it as ‘marijuana,’ a substance that has no business being legalized or made socially acceptable. True, marijuana legalization takes effect Oct. 17 across the…
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Jeff Burgar I just returned from my birthplace of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The city is as beautiful as I remember, although not keeping up with its brand as “City of Bridges.” Maybe change to something like “City of Parks.” There are…
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Mac Olsen How many billions of pizza boxes are manufactured each year throughout the world? Notoriously, they wind up in landfills and it’s appalling to see this one-off type packaging still in use today. However, plastic straws seem to be…
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