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David Parker

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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Parker’s Pen – September 2020

I applaud Diane Colley-Urquhaut for being the only member of council to take a breath and declare that we should not “fall into the cancel culture” as the only dissenting

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Parker’s Pen – August 2020

There’s a concern that future generations will not be able to write as people deliver far too much communication with the use of a keyboard. I’m wondering if we will

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Parker’s Pen – July 2020

Always interested in words, I wonder who came up with the phrase ‘social distancing’ to describe measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Sounds nice but wouldn’t ‘physical distancing’ be

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Parker’s Pen – June 2020

The awful virus has had a hugely negative effect on so many people, but I must say the isolation has also meant an appreciation of so many things. Taking the

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Parker’s Pen – May 2020

I can’t remember when I first started writing for publishers Pat and Tim Ottman, but I have a copy of a column dated August 2006 that began by saying ‘I’m

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Marketing Matters – April 2020

Always a believer in hiring local talent, it is more important than ever to provide as much work as possible to Calgary companies during the current economic blip. So why,

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