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  • AISH in Crisis: Policies Driving Despair

    WHAT’S GONE WRONG WITH AISH, CDB,AND ADAP? We’ve been hit hard, burned by Premier Danielle Smith, the UCP, ADAP, Jason Nixon, and the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) mess. They promise help but take it away. They give us $1,901 a month on AISH, say it’s the best in Canada, but prices keep climbing—food, rent, everything.…

  • Discovering Love: The Stories of Patience, Daniel, and Faith

    Discovering Love: The Stories of Patience, Daniel, and Faith

    I love my children with all my heart; they are my reason for being. Patience, my oldest, is my first miracle and blessing because I never thought I’d have children or find someone willing to take that risk with me, given my Hajdu-Cheney Syndrome. I often wondered what might happen if my condition worsened—needing to…

  • To My Wonderful Children

    To My Wonderful Children

    I often wonder if it is a good or a bad idea. Should I write my children a letter? This letter will explain me a bit better than they can figure out on their own. A letter to all of them and maybe one day a letter to each in private. What if there is…

  • The Cheesmans

    The Cheesmans

    The Cheesmans! No, I do not know any actual cheese makers, no, you’re not original with whatever nicknames are floating between your ears. Yes, I do love cheese, not those processed or altered cheeses. My family was quite small from 1990 to 2013 ish. Usually it was just my immediate family – my mom and…

  • The Docherty’s and MacIvers
  • Where does Rycroft come from?

    Where does Rycroft come from?

    How Rycroft Got Its Name by Eric J. Rycroft “The story is told that when the question came up of naming the land area that was divorced from Spirit River in 1920, four pioneers used a novel way of doing it. W.S.O. “Billy” English and H.E. “Doc” Calkin, partners in a general store near Rycroft,…