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Parker’s Pen – January 2024

I admit to being a man who can bear a grudge. Despite events like George Brookman’s Breakfast on the Peace Bridge fundraiser, I’ve yet to set foot on it. I

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Parker’s Pen – October 2023

There are a number of words that one rarely hears or reads anymore. Ones that I would like to resurrect – like henceforth, niggardly, daft and kerfuffle. Codswallop is a

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Parker’s Pen – August 2023

It’s really too bad that there is not more competition in the domestic airline industry as the two big carriers continue to put people off travelling by air. Yet, despite

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Parker’s Pen – July 2023

The voice of the people was heard and listened to, thank goodness, as the decision to ban fireworks was reversed by the City. Never heard of Common Sense Calgary but

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Parker’s Pen – June 2023

Growing up with the delivered Daily Herald while feasting on the likes of George Orwell’s Road to Wigan Pier, I was well acquainted with the plight of coal miners and

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Parker’s Pen – May 2023

How many times do members of the esteemed UCP party have to read headlines about being their own worst enemy before they start paying attention? The election is nigh and

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Parker’s Pen – April 2023

I was thinking of the line ‘When will they ever learn?’ in the Peter, Paul and Mary song ‘Where have all the flowers gone?’ when I heard of the latest

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