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David Parker

Parker’s Pen – August 2021

I applaud the many pushes to ‘Buy Local’ when possible, particularly by restaurants that source out produce and meats from Alberta growers and farm collectives. A problem I have is

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Parker’s Pen – July 2021

My first company event in Calgary was in 1965, a barbecue put on by The Albertan newspaper at Happy Valley, a park that became Valley Ridge. It was also my

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Parker’s Pen – June 2021

Politicians have always been seen as fair game for the media, but few have allowed themselves to be such a good target as our provincial government. So many expected so

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Parker’s Pen – May 2021

The April edition of Canadian Geographic not only contains a photo of a fashionable couple wearing masks to ward off the Spanish flu and an interesting article on the iconic

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Parker’s Pen – April 2021

Most of us enjoy reading Letters to the Editor, giving us an idea of other people’s genuine interests and concerns. They also give us a current temperature reading of feelings

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Parker’s Pen – March 2021

Darby Lee Young deserves a really good round of applause in being named as a 2021 Top 25 Women of Influence, recognized as one of Canada’s diverse women role models.

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Parker’s Pen – February 2021

Here we are still COVID-conscious after almost a year of forced lockdown in our personal as well as business lives. Who could have imagined not being able to have a

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Parker’s Pen – January 2021

I’m a big fan of the several ‘Buy Local’ campaigns as a way of trying to help some of our hard-hit retailers, so the increasing number of people buying online

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Parker’s Pen – December 2020

There are many who might say I’m not the brightest star in the galaxy, but it would seem to me that the projected double-digit tax increase for industrial properties is

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Parker’s Pen: November 2020

It seems the U.S. election has created much more interest among Canadians than politics in our own country. Maybe we have just given up – but interest is growing in

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