Last week CBC Radio called me and asked if I would interview how the housing crisis was affecting seniors.Sadly, the short answer is it is affecting seniors in a significant way. The city of Calgary tells us over 81,000 Calgary...
I was asked the other day, what is Kerby Centre going to do differently in our next 50 years of operation? To answer that I would have to look far down the road, but I can assure you that in...
As you are reading this, we are closer to the end of our 50th anniversary year than we are to the start of it. As with most of our previous 49 years, the 50th has been a particularly good year,...
You may have noticed as you drive around the city that there are some sad-looking, seemingly barely alive, trees left standing along the boulevards. If you are like me, you may have wondered why limbs are being pruned off, but...
How would you describe a cat? Some words that come to mind include aloof, mysterious, elegant, and calming, and I suspect you can come up with many more descriptive words. Statistics suggest 34 per cent of men and 37 per...
Love may be in the air in February but so too is, unfortunately, potential danger.
In 2021, Better Business Bureaus (BBBs) across North America received 276 reports of romance scams. One romance scam in the Calgary area (not a senior) resulted...
In the 1970s, my brother-in-law showed me a family tree he had created simply by writing down — using lines and squares — his immediate family and extending each line. This intrigued me.
My first wife was from Prince Edward Island,...
On what seemed like a normal day in February 2022, Oleksandr (Alex) Melnyk’s mother woke him up at seven in the morning with terrifying news — the war had begun.
Melnyk turned on his computer and saw the images and news...
By the time this article goes to print our team should have finished working on the Kerby Centre Charity Classic — and we should be well on our way to planning our next event: the Seniors Expo.The Expo is a...
This week I did an interview with the Business Editor at the Canadian Press, about the impact of inflation on seniors. Here at Veiner and Kerby Centre, we are very concerned about how inflation is affecting seniors of all income...
