David Milgaard: Free at Last
David Milgaard — who became known for something he didn’t do — died suddenly in a Calgary hospital on Sunday Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Reporters
I recently spent some time with two veteran broadcasters, both radio reporters. One was a friend; the other, a foe. Continue reading
Lord Stanley’s Mug and a Stranger
It was Saturday, 19 May 1984 — a pleasant, warm spring evening in Edmonton, Alberta. Across the city and clear Continue reading
Doctor Helen
BREAKING: DOCTOR HELEN HUSTON, one of Canada’s best-known missionaries, died peacefully in Edmonton on March 1st, 2024. The ‘Good Doctor’ Continue reading
A Native Protest : 1988
Word came on 28 January 2013 that a well-known band of Cree Natives was throwing its support behind Idle No Continue reading
Prisoner 88 [Part 1]
The young Pole survived four and a half years at the mother of all Nazi death camps — Auschwitz — witnessing unspeakable things. But talk about them he did. This is Part One of his incredible story.
Prisoner 88 [Part 2]
This is the second of two posts on the young Polish prisoner who spent WW2 at Auschwitz. Sigmund Sobolewski returned to Poland with the Author in June 1990. He spoke of torture, his work at the camp, a deadly uprising there … and why a part of Auschwitz was called ‘Canada.’
Tania and that ‘Family Friend’
In 1983 a young Edmonton girl vanished on her way home from school. The years have flown by … and now the child’s mother, father and brother have all died early — their deaths brought on because of not knowing the child’s fate.
Byron Christopher 