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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Scott Santens writes about the flaw in markets which fail to distinguish between goods and services which
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Getting Closer To The Fire
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Appropriating Morality
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Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Grope effect
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Donald Trump and his lovely wife Melania are doing Europe this summer. Distaining the very pedestrian bus tours, the Trumps are using Air Force One
Continue readingAlberta Politics: By-elections conveniently over, United Conservative Party pushes out MLA accused of ballot stuffing at nomination meeting
With many Albertans apparently in a mood to take Jason Kenney’s claim at face value his year-old United Conservative Party is renewed, reformed and ready
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Some BC politicians are not bright. Either that, or they are thoroughly dishonest. Maybe both. Liberals saw natural gas revenues drop from $11.5 billion in
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If the feds disclose evidence at a future trial that indicates provincial neglect and dereliction in pursuing crimes associated with gambling, what happens to public
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: Sixth MLA leaves the UCP. Prab Gill resigns from caucus following ballot-stuffing investigation.
The polls suggest the United Conservative Party is poised to form government in 2019, but how united the caucus actually is remains questionable. Calgary-Greenway UCP
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: July 14: Making Canada a better place for billionaires
I was puzzled as I wrote the July 11 blog. What was Trump doing with his attacks on allies? But a day of thinking it
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What More Can Trump Do for Putin? How About Absolution?
Nothing Vlad Putin has done will deter Donald Trump from his one-on-one chin wag with his fellow despot in Finland on Monday. Nothing, not even
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Councillor Kathy Jeffrey wants to get tough on crime. Serious crimes like throwing birdseed on your deck, not cutting the grass on the boulevard in
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The UCP brain trust can explain that MAGA cap: Devin Dreeshen’s here to help Canadians with Donald Trump!
If the events of the past few days in Europe make anything clear, it’s that sucking up to Donald Trump is not likely to get
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Theresa May, Donald Trump, and Nigel Farage
Was Donald Trump acting as Nigel Farage’s beard when he gave a controversial interview to the Brit tabloid, The Sun, the evening before his meeting
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