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Brookman: City's rezoning push at odds with desire to preserve trees

Calgarians love their trees. Look at any picture from the late 1800s and you will see that the landscape encompassing our city was, for all intents...

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Brookman: Angels walk among us, making life better every day

We walk with angels every day. Not those angels that give you butterflies and make you stammer when you see them, but rather those who spend their...

05.04.2024 9

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Bookman: Taxpayers feel ignored as council moves to beat of own drum

Back when those bumbling Baby Boomers were running the show, when glass bottles were recycled by reusing them, when groceries came in paper bags and...

08.03.2024 8

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Brookman: Can we pull back from a tipping point?

We all understand the meaning of a “tipping point” and the implied concept that a series of events can lead to larger and more important or...

23.02.2024 9

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Brookman: Rules of the housing game suddenly changed

It is fair to say that for the majority of Canadians, the purchase of a house is the single-largest investment they will ever make. Interestingly,...

09.02.2024 4

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Brookman: Handshake honesty a relic of the past?

When Albertans talk about “cowboy ethics,” we often refer to “handshake honesty” —  a sentiment based on a level of trust that is...

26.01.2024 8

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Brookman: Excessive taxes give rise to second coming of the Boston Tea Party

On Dec. 16, 1773, exactly 250 years ago, a group calling itself the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in Boston Harbour and threw 342 chests of...

12.01.2024 8

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Brookman: A New Year's wish for less drama and more positivity in our lives

Do you remember when it was a full year between New Year’s Day and Dec. 31? When Christmas took forever to arrive and those last 60 days felt like...

29.12.2023 9

Calgary Herald

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Brookman: There were lessons to be learned from Norman Lear's comedies

It is through laughter and humour that lessons are most easily taught

16.12.2023 9

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Brookman: There were lessons to be learned from Norman Lear's comedies

When Norman Lear died last week, the world did not just lose a brilliant writer, television producer and creative genius, but also a great teacher....

15.12.2023 8

Calgary Herald

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Brookman: City's rush to build housing carries risk of unintended consequences

There are things reported almost daily that many of us simply do not understand. Almost every newscast talks about the cost of living, the cost of...

01.12.2023 6

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Brookman: All levels of government ignoring wishes of the people

Eight people sit down in a restaurant for a meal. When the bill comes, seven of them take a vote and decide that the eighth person should pay the...

17.11.2023 10

Calgary Herald

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Brookman: Health system has lost focus on relieving pain and suffering at home

At a time when wars are causing unspeakable acts and people are losing their homes, families and lives, the challenges we face in Alberta and Canada...

03.11.2023 3

Calgary Herald

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Brookman: Defence spending cuts show us up on world stage

We are awash in issues these days and it seems that every newscast carries some variation of a controversy. Whether it’s the expanding Green Line...

06.10.2023 10

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Brookman: Government failings damaging Canadian pride

There was a satisfying sense of irony to the fact the prime minister could not get his 36-year-old plane to start when he was trying to leave India....

22.09.2023 8

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Brookman: Moratorium 'necessary' for orderly development of renewables

Contrary to what the opposition and some media seem to think, the sun will not stop shining and the wind will not stop blowing over the next six...

08.09.2023 6

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