All Kinds Of Lessons
Commentators are beginning to turn their attention to Donald Trump’s legacy. Simon Tidall’s column in The Guardian is a good place to start. He writes: How much damage did Donald…
Commentators are beginning to turn their attention to Donald Trump’s legacy. Simon Tidall’s column in The Guardian is a good place to start. He writes: How much damage did Donald…
Today marks the 13th anniversary of the first post published on this blog, known at the time as St. Albert Diary, and later, for a spell, as Alberta Diary. So,…
In December 2019, the Alberta government launched the Canadian Energy Centre. The new UCP government had fulfilled its election promise of an energy “war room” that would “fight fake news…
Out of the frying pan, into the fire. A vaccine is here, hooray! But now let’s actually take a good hard look at climate change mitigation. This is from a…
Assorted content for your Boxing Day reading. – Kyle Hanniman and Trevor Tombe examine the relative fiscal positions of Canada’s federal and provincial governments – concluding that while there isn’t…
This investigation by the Globe‘s Grant Robertson is shocking. It shows that Canada’s federal government consciously destroyed our pandemic-alert system. Do they have blood on their hands? Read these excerpts,…
Wednesday I joined Rob Snow on CityNews Ottawa radio’s “The Rob Snow Show” along with Andrew Brander for the “Political Fix” panel. We talked the narrative that each party will…
We went for a walk with the gang yesterday, doing the right thing for this Covid-19 Christmas. No hugs, no inside gatherings, but at least we were together for a…
This is the time of year predictions proliferate, and Tony Burman has a few of his own. He writes: This coming year will be better in many respects than the…
Gordi – Extraordinary Life
More than eight million of your dollars have been spent to date on the Saunderson Vindictive Judicial Inquiry (SVJI), and it may top $9 million if you add in the…
I’m generally a worrier. If my kids don’t text back after a few minutes, all sorts of images bombard my brain. Sometimes they don’t text back for hours, and it…
During the 2019 Alberta Election, a number of UCP candidates were tagged by opposition as having track records of peddling hate. Several of these candidates ended up stepping aside during…
If everything had gone according to plan, or at least according to plan B, I might have been spending Christmas with my parents not far from Loch Ness in the…
Merry Christmas! Normally in the wee hours of Christmas morning, your blogger would have been trudging home from midnight mass, his mild annual winter rebellion against a Protestant upbringing. Canmore…
Justin Trudeau was apparently looking forward to a quieter 2020 than he had experienced the year before. But the Year from Hell forced him to govern like he never had…
Wishing everyone a happy holiday and a healthy new year.
Never has the government of British Columbia stood behind a larger megaproject than the Site C hydropower project. Never have more falsehoods been used to justify BC Hydro operations and…
No one does it better than Chris Cuomo. Even if you only watch a couple of minutes of the above video, you will see that he has taken the true,…
Its disappearance went largely unnoticed. There was no post mortem, no eulogy, no deep sighs for what had been lost. Posterity slipped from our consciousness as we ushered in the…