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For years I’ve had two hibiscus bushes that have bloomed perhaps a half dozen times when the conditions were just right.  I put them outside in the summer, but even then blooms are rare. This year, however, things are different.  They’ve spent four months in their usual vacation place, in our shady little patch of ...

With just two days left before most Calgarians finally get their election over with, dueling poll releases from Mainstreet Research and everyone’s favourite Forum have painted some very different pictures of the race. Let’s start with the Mainstreet poll, which gives challenger Bill Smith a healthy 13-point lead over incumbent Naheed Nenshi. The September 30th ...

I remember the day when we were sent home from school early after John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas. A few of us were hanging out in the front yard when Larry, the milk man, came by and commiserated with us about the horrible events in Texas. I remember the photographs of the funeral ...

Senior administrators at the University of Calgary suppressed academic freedom and failed to address glaring conflicts of interest while attempting to establish an Enbridge-funded research centre, according to a report commissioned by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) that was released Wednesday. The report — co-authored by Alison Hearn of the University of Western Ontario ...

When Harvard prof, Stephen Walt, looks at Donald Trump he sees – Silvio Berlusconi perhaps?  Close but no cigar. Trump is frequently compared to former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, another glib, unscrupulous, lying, preening sexual predator who managed to keep getting elected even though his personal conduct was deplorable and his policies were a ...

Kelly Brown was awoken at 4:30 a.m. on October 13, 2016, by the kind of phone call nobody ever wants to receive : an environmental catastrophe was unfolding a 20-minute boat ride up the coast from his home in the community of Bella Bella. “I had to call this guy back because I wanted to make ...

The first line in the Globe article sums it up: Canada’s transition to a low-carbon future must include new pipelines to expand oil exports to a diverse global marketplace, federal and Alberta ministers told an energy conference in Winnipeg on Thursday. Now, if you’re a drylander who can’t understand the internal contradiction in that, allow ...

Donald Trump’s life story can be reduced to one word. He’s a “grifter.” He’s a con artist, a veteran swindler, who has left a wake of bankruptcies, unpaid creditors and empty-handed investors who unwisely took his word as his bond only to discover that it really was worthless. I’m not suggesting that Trump is one-dimensional. ...

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