One year ago, the Edmonton Journal published a letter written by Greg Stevens, in which the former cabinet minister sent Alberta’s newly elected New Democratic Party best wishes at the…
By Asbjørn Wahl For a long time, Norway has represented an exception in Europe and the word. The main reason has been the abundance of oil revenue, which has made…
Elevated cats.
I've tried to be as positive and as sensitive as possible about the fire that almost consumed Fort McMurray.I've tried to point out all the ways that catastrophe has brought…
Connecting extreme weather events with climate change isn’t exactly a new thing. After Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York and New Jersey in 2012, Bloomberg published a front page…
Over the years, we have welcomed nurses into our family. Community and long-term care nurses are a special breed. They understand teamwork with family and how to make clinical nursing…
I’m Canadian. I was born in Canada and I’ve lived here all my life. As such, I probably shouldn’t comment on either American or Mexican politics. But that hasn’t stopped…
They're comparing Ted Cruz to Monty Python's "Black Knight." The nomination battle may be lost but Cruz loyalists want to wage a social conservative policy fight on the convention floor.Convention…
Here's two fine specimens of Scottish manhood bagging a few rays.Scotland - yeah, that place just above England - is having an early season heatwave with temperatures peaking to 26C.…
Had urbanist Jane Jacobs lived to be 100, she would have celebrated her birthday earlier this week. Jacobs, a journalist by training, was a champion of people and cities and…
Had urbanist Jane Jacobs lived to be 100, she would have celebrated her birthday earlier this week. Jacobs, a journalist by training, was a champion of people and cities and…
By Ed Struzik for The Tyee. A sudden shift in the wind at a critical time of day was all it took to send a wildfire out of control through…
This animation produced by Climate Central lets you see how temperatures have warmed since the pre-industrial period. The hardest part is to watch the rate of increase (yellow) during the…
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Frank examines how market outcomes are shaped disproportionately by luck rather than significant differences in merit:(W)ith each extension of the highway, rail,…
EDMONTON – After days of dodging important questions from Rebel Media and uncles’ facebook pages alike, Alberta premier Rachel Notley came clean today and admitted that she intentionally created…
I probably would have stayed with the same brand. But it’s too difficult to match things up. I have two big brand name handles bought in the last year, because…
Hermicity is a proposed community for hermits. The inhabitants would live on their own to cater to their need for isolation, they won’t even need to go to the grocery…
Cascading health care cuts are resulting in significant problems for home care patients and their families, seriously undermining the main defense the government makes for its policy of hospital and…
Cascading health care cuts are resulting in significant problems for home care patients and their families, seriously undermining the main defense the government makes for its policy of hospital and…
Canadians love for census Star Op-Ed
I’ve a small piece in the Toronto Star today about the census, Canadians reaction to it, and what it says about Canada. You can find it here: Canadians love for…