BC Health Minister Adrian Dix announced on Wednesday that more paramedics and more dispatchers, along with new ambulances and better rural response stations, will be […]
Teresa Mallam
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My grandfather was seeped with wisdom, a ‘salt of the earth’ oil man from Alberta. I looked up to Grandpa Tom as my trusted guide […]
I began my day Thursday, July 1, by proudly placing a Canadian flag in my front window. The 19X13 inch paper flag was a fold-out […]
Editor: Re: Teresa Mallam column Museum for Misfits … a place to hide the skeletons in our closet PG Daily News, March 5: My theory […]
We are, for good or bad — people with a past. There is no escaping this fact, erasing it from living memory, or rewriting our […]
Groundhogs are cute and, if you believe the folklore, they’re clever about forecasting our weather. Two weeks ago, three fan favourite groundhogs gave their annual […]
There’s a long-running joke, told at our expense, pitched to viewing audiences by UK or American talk show hosts, with openers such as: “How can […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam UnMuzzled I feel like I’m going in circles…because I am.As our very own Joni Mitchell sang in better times, in The […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled Last week my column was, in hindsight, kind of dark and dismal. A real emotional downer, as I went from […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled I have just thrown out my wall calendar for 2020. I replaced it with a 9X10 photo of my cat, […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam UnMuzzled Hands up … how many who applied for the B.C. recovery benefit days before Christmas got the money in their […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled We walk on eggshells and hope we won’t crack under the strain of trying to keep safe. We wear our […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled Me, myself and I … and three cans of paint. The Rolling Stones got it right (or song writer Jerry […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled Everyone is a comedian. It seems that way, anyway. And that’s fine with me. We are living in very puzzling […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled When you live long enough, you can see that everything in our society happens in cycles. That includes protests and […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled Roads are paved with good intentions and recent road kill includes some of our most gifted and qualified reporters and […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled If a small town like Kenora can get it right, years before the fact (2020 pandemic), why can’t we find […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled I often hear people say that they enjoy their own company. Well, as Rudyard Kipling has penned, that makes them […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled Most journalists would kill (figuratively speaking) to be able to use the expression a “murder (flock) of crows.” But apart […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled To put it mildly, understated, all is not right with our world and animals in nature can surely sense that. […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Mallam Unmuzzled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made it pretty clear that he expects all of us to do what we can […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Special to the News A friend of mine lamented – from a distance – “why can’t we just live in a world […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Special to the News With the advent and rapid advance of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, life as we know it has been […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Special to the News At times like this, in the throes of a pandemic (not that I’ve ever been through one like […]
BY TERESA MALLAM Special to the News Today, I am casting aside every comforting word my mother, pastor, confidante, spouse, historical figure or political leader […]