PHOTOS: St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse. Below: Mayoral candidates Cam MacKay and Cathy Heron. ST. ALBERT, Alberta An Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Justice yesterday dismissed an application by a…
Prepare to get taken to the woodshed, Junior. In a move that brings joy to my heart, our new NDP/Green government has shown its ready to back up its promises…
PHOTOS: A scene from Derek Fildebrandt’s mini-Skypalace, the taxpayer subsidized Fildepartment in downtown Edmonton, grabbed from his Airbnb listing. Note the binoculars to the right of the window, presumably used…
PCs are angrily telling me there’s no crininal investigation. Libs are angrily telling me there is. QP Briefing, too. Here’s the cops’ only statement I’m aware of: Now, if you…
As I drove back from Saskatoon this past weekend, I noticed something. Just outside of the grain terminal near Allan, an old stalwart had disappeared from the side of the…
The new B.C. NDP government has officially taken its first major step in attempting to stop the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. On Thursday morning, it announced it will seek…
This seven page memo is the stuff of soap operas. It is also what triggered General H.R. McMaster to purge the National Security Council of its Mike Flynn/Steve Bannon proxies.…
Imagine you come out of your home, look down the street and see this: That’s what tourism can feel like – not just look like but feel like – today…
Here, on Yvonne Boyer and Judith Bartlett’s report (PDF) on how Indigenous women were pushed toward tubal ligations within the Saskatoon Health Region – and how the now-departing Brad Wall…
This recent article in my local paper tells us that our region is lowest in the province for graduation rates. ON FIFTH YEAR RATES They worry that “Students who did…
Well now we know that Donald Trump's verbal blast at North Korea was totally improvised. President Trump’s aides knew he planned to deliver a tough message to North Korea on…
It sounds like a war is underway between Donald Trump and his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. There’s a report that Manafort, under investigation by Robert Meuller’s task force including…
Further explanation here. First, a bit about statistical norms and the normal distribution. In social sciences, for something to be considered a statistically significant characteristic of a group, it just…
Photos: 2012 Derek Fildebrandt (above), 2017 Derek Fildebrandt (below). For Immediate Release CALGARY – Standing in front of a giant inflatable pork chop, 2012 Derek Fildebrandt denounced 2017 Derek Fildebrandt…
Apparently so. In today’s column, Brooks tells New York Times readers that he simply cannot take any more Donald Trump. He’s had it. For the past two years Trump has…
Leadership Table’s 23 recommendations: A start towards preventing workplace violence in health care On August 8, 2017, a patient at Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care came out of the…
It’s been known for some time that sea level rise is worse in some areas than in others. America’s eastern seaboard is one example. Now, a study out of the…
“The cult of selfish individualism.” Those words sound out of place in an election manifesto produced by Theresa May’s Conservative party. And yet an express repudiation of Thatcherite neoliberalism was…
Me, Brad Wall and Lisa in his office just a few days ago. A huge loss to Saskatchewan and Canada. The most popular politician in the country leaves as he…
I was going to give this one a pass. After all, the United States is the mother lode for really bad societal outcomes from institutionalized inequality and a shredded social…
