March 17, 2022 Please. Vote for the Best BC Small Town Vote in CBC’s Best Small Town Contest, but put your vote to work for Fernie. Vote for another town, writes […] Read more
January 31, 2022 A Modest Proposal By Keith Liggett This truckers protest got me thinking. We need to come up with a way to accommodate both […] Read more
December 26, 2021 That First Christmas Alone By Keith Liggett My first Christmas alone was in Aspen. I lived in what could only be called a third […] Read more
December 02, 2021 Tentative Opening Day. FAR. December 4, 2021 By Keith Liggett The most depressing thing in the world is going up to the ski area a couple weeks […] Read more
November 10, 2021 RCR Realized There’s a Pandemic By Keith Liggett So someone’s switched the drink at RCR’s Calgary headquarters from Kool-Aid to Red Bull. On November 1, […] Read more
October 05, 2021 Founding Guilds Kicked Out of Arts Station Forty years ago, several local Art Guilds joined together to form the Fernie and District Arts Council. Ten years later […] Read more
June 30, 2021 The Continuing Shame of the Ghostrider To actively promote a tale of Euro promises, blithely broken, resulting in the vast degradation of Indigenous lands is beyond simply tone deaf. Read more
April 01, 2021 The Fernie Snowpack and an Explanation This has been a year for the record books. The wrong records. A world-wide Covid pandemic closed much of the […] Read more
January 28, 2021 A Parable for the Times of Covid David Wilks, mayor of Sparwood, was quoted in the Free Press, ““Don’t go to Fernie unless there’s a need to…” Read more
January 20, 2021 Mea Culpa – Reconsidering Essential Travel For Alberta! In reading the many comments to my previous piece, Fernie. Essential Travel for Alberta!, I must admit I may have gone too far. Read more
January 12, 2021 Fernie. Essential Travel for Alberta! On Saturday at 2PM in Lot 2, the nose-in parking on the left as you drive toward the Wolf’s Den, held thirty-two cars. Twenty-one of them had Alberta plates. Read more