David Parker

2 weeks ago | businessincalgary.com | David Parker

I looked up the word ‘statesman’ during this past election campaign, and found that a statesman is a wise person, skilled, experienced and a respected political leader. By the time this column is printed it will be all over in Canada, but to my mind neither political party leader came anywhere near to being called a statesman. Lacking experience for the job, and certainly guilty of showing no respect for their opponent, in fact being quite rude. Where do you find a statesman today?

1 month ago | biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com | David Parker |Gabrielle Ruban |Brett Henshey |Nicholas Massa

22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is one of the most robust genetic predictors of psychosis and other psychiatric illnesses. Resting-state neural oscillations have been implicated in psychosis syndromes and are associated with excitatory and inhibitory imbalances involving NMDA and GABAergic neurotransmission. We examined both periodic (rhythmic) and aperiodic (ongoing) neural activity across frequency bands in 22q11DS.

1 month ago | businessincalgary.com | David Parker

Hard to believe that the Ottmann brothers have been publishing Business in Calgary for 35 years, and that I have had the privilege of knowing them for almost all of that time. We first met when I was with Calgary Economic Development Authority when it was located on the fourth floor of the Burns Building, across from City Hall. Naturally, interested in Calgary’s businesses, I went through the building introducing myself to the other tenants to find out what they were all about.

2 months ago | businessincalgary.com | David Parker

I’ve been very lucky in not being too much of a burden on our health care system, but the unfortunate experience of visiting the Rockyview Hospital daily for nine weeks was a real eye opener to some of the problems I have read about in Letters to the Editor. Neatly made-up gurneys are lined up every night awaiting emergency arrivals. We arrived at 3:30 p.m. and guess we weren’t classed as a real emergency as we didn’t get to see a doctor until 7:40 p.m. From then on, the attention was great.

2 months ago | theprizefinder.com | David Parker

Combining style, environmental responsibility and over 170 years of experience, ESSE stoves are something to get fired up aboutMarch can be a funny old month, and the weather is often reliably unreliable, as the adage suggests – in like a lion and out like a lamb. But despite spring sending snippets of brighter and warmer days, we know that once the sun goes down, the chill will return.