This week’s column: when abroad, behave
Dear Famous Canadians: Canadians behaving badly in the United States: you could practically write a book about the subject, couldn’t you? On the Right side of the spectrum, there was…
Dear Famous Canadians: Canadians behaving badly in the United States: you could practically write a book about the subject, couldn’t you? On the Right side of the spectrum, there was…
Science should just be science, but unfortunately, a LOT of it is funded by different special interest groups. How are we supposed to know when we’re being informed proactively versus…
I realize that the Globe writer John Ibbitson has written some rotten columns before, most of them in praise of Stephen Harper.And I realize he works for a newspaper that…
If the federal New Democratic Party is now Green, where does the Green Party get to go? Looking at NDP MP Niki Ashton’s pricy green plan, you really wonder about…
Reviewers have been so effusive in their praise for Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk that one suspects that something is very wrong here. The New York Times, for example, called it a…
Alberta's laws on reforming Election Financing has come a long way since the Notley government came to office. We really needed to "clean up our act" on donor disclosures, contribution…
Alberta’s laws on reforming Election Financing has come a long way since the Notley government came to office. We really needed to “clean up our act” on donor disclosures, contribution…
Photo from Public Domain Venezuela is heading towards an increasingly dangerous situation, in which open civil war could become a real possibility. So far over 100 people have been killed…
Photo by Anthony Gale The UN Refugee Agency has announced the new figures for the world’s displaced: 65.9 million. That means that 65.9 million human beings live as refugees, asylum…
We knew it was going to be vulgar. What we did not anticipate was that it would be ‘this’ vulgar. The opening press conference of a scheduled four city tour…
Jason Kenney is busy ticking off the boxes in his quest to be the next premier of Alberta: Become the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party—check. Maneuver Brian Jean (WR)…
A preceding article contains two comments from readers whom I regard highly. The contributions were to Overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks… Because they merit close attention, I present them…
They’re both ambitious women. They’re both radical conservatives. Hey, they’re both doctors and they’ll say anything and walk all over anyone to get what they want. Ours is the ever…
Well, that was decisive. The Wildrose and the Progressive Conservatives — the Hatfields and the McCoys of Alberta politics — agreed to a merger on Saturday. And it wasn’t even…
The African American experience in Los Angeles County, California: a brief and selected timeline of sorts.* From 1940-1960, thousands of African Americans migrated from Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, and other southern…
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS INDIGENOUS CIVILIZATIONS OF TURTLE ISLAND NINE VOLUMES OF MAYAN ICONOGRAPHY INCLUDING THE SPANISH INVASION Antiquities of Mexico : comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in…
When you read or listen to resource industry advocates, especially ones masquerading as objective political pundits, compare their concerns in 2009 about burning natural gas to generate peak-demand electricity to…
Good question and one best left to experts like Stanford prof, Josiah Ober, author and professor of political science and the classics. In Dr. Ober’s view, the Greeks would not…
Can Robert Mueller indict Donald Trump? Ken Starr, the special counsel who tried to take down Bill Clinton, seems to think so. The New York Times using Freedom of Information…
For the better part of 15 years I’ve been following news of developments in climate change, anthropogenic global warming. I subscribe to these news aggregators that every day deliver to…