Behind closed doors with Danielle Smith
Premier Danielle Smith has made major policy announcements at closed-door meetings with UCP members in select communities. There will be plenty more to come … At a private meeting with…
Premier Danielle Smith has made major policy announcements at closed-door meetings with UCP members in select communities. There will be plenty more to come … At a private meeting with…
This week, let’s take a peek into the confusing and sometimes disturbing world of the pre-teens and teens as seen through the prism of social media, and the legacy media…
The tributes to Bob Newhart last week were universal in tone. A great comic, a great sitcom star, and a great guy. If there was anyone who had a bad…
On Thursday night, the first United States presidential debate will air on CNN (for those of you who do not subscribe to CNN, you can see it on CTV News…
We all have little things that irk us, things that other, more normal people would never notice or care about. In my case, it’s lazy and/or stupid media blather. I…
There’s a little sports spectacle, something about a cup that belongs to some guy named Stanley, that has been taking up most of the oxygen in the sports universe lately.…
On May 28, two Quebec sisters will celebrate their 90th birthdays. The event may or may not go unnoticed. But when they were born, the whole world knew it. The…
On one of my infrequent trips to the grocery store, I found myself scanning the cereal aisle, looking for an age-appropriate cereal that wouldn’t set me back seven dollars. Unfortunately,…
Last week, I took a look at the interesting names given to children-assigned-female-at-birth, formerly known as girls. This week, let us peruse the 6,630 different boy names of 2023. The…
Every year, the government of Alberta does something that even Danielle Smith can’t ruin: the baby name list. I love this list, not only because it is vastly amusing and…
Premier Danielle Smith has announced changes to how Alberta educational institutions may accept research money from the federal government. “For too long, the Trudeau government has given research money based…
Before the federal government and The People’s Republic of Edmonton declared war on paper or plastic bags, stores would provide customers with bags, gratis, to tote away their purchases. Hey,…
As of March 15th at about 1:45p.m. – the Ides of March, whatever that means – I crossed the last threshold into senior citizenship. I am now a grandfather, and,…
Have I ever told you about the time I met Brian Mulroney? It was 1984, and Mulroney was running to replace the exhausted and deeply unpopular Pierre Trudeau/John Turner government.…
Hockey cards are having a moment, aren’t they? Recently, an entire carton of unopened 1979-80 hockey cards, found in a Saskatoon basement (could this story be any more Canadian?) sold…
If Barbie wins the best picture Oscar on Monday, it will mark two years in a row that I didn’t finish the best picture winner. I stopped watching last year’s…
One day last week, I got a phone call from my mother-in-law. I know this sounds like the set-up for a joke, but it isn’t. “Where are you?” she practically…
One of the biggest issues in the U.S. election isn’t the economy, or the border (southern, not northern), or various worldwide conflicts. It’s age. Specifically, old age. The only thing…
How much have you, or are you, spending on Valentine’s Day? If the Retail Council of Canada can be trusted (have they ever lied to us before?), the answer is,…
I am reading a called ‘Yeah, Yeah, Yeah’ a history of pop music. Naturally, there was a chapter on The Beatles and their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show,…