Stuff I Learned This Week no. 1
Over the last three years, I wrote a weekly blog on world events, cleverly titled ‘Stuff Happens’, followed by less cleverly titled sequels. This year, I decided to abandon the…
Maurice Tougas
Your Sunday Sermon: Maybe this Trump fellow isn’t so bad after all
Last year, I wrote that one of my resolutions for 2018 was to deTrump myself. No more reading about the insane clown president. No more all-Trump, all-the-time monologues from the…
Your Sunday Sermon: Exclusive sneak peak at Trudeau tell-all book!
For the past few months, writer C. Ellsworth Stubbins has been granted unrestricted access to the inner workings of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office. Although not as explosive as Fire…
Your Sunday Sermon: You call THIS cold?
Edmonton, the city I have called home since birth, has a love-hate relationship with winter. One the one hand, we hate it. It’s cold, it’s dark 15 hours of the…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 52: RIP
As the last blog of 2017 – and the last in the Stuff Happens series of blogs – let’s look at the names we lost in 2017. January Mary Tyler…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 51: The year in books (well, books I read, anyway)
OK, I’m well aware Stuff Happened this past week. Justin Trudeau had his knuckles rapped for accepting an all-expenses paid trip on a private island, courtesy the Aga Khan some…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 50: The year in Google
In lieu of an actual look at the past week, here’s a look at last year, as tabulated by most popular searches on Google. Here in Canada, Hurricane Irma was…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 49: Pure Canadiana
I’ve written so much stuff about American political craziness (more to come, I’m sure), I feel that I’ve been neglecting my home and native land. So this week, let us…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 46: Trump loses it.
I swear I didn’t want to write another word about Donald Trump. But some weeks – almost any week, in fact – he’s inescapable. So, with apologies, here we go…
The Return of Stuff Happens, weeks 44 & 45: Men behaving badly
This is not a good time to be a male. Every day, we are revealed to be dirtbags. It all began with Harvey Weinstein. Once, this Oscar-winning deal maker was…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 43: It’s all politics, folks.
As you may recall, last week Premier Rachael Notley and her sneaky government laid a trap for the new leader of the united conservatives, Jason Kenney. Making a mountain out…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 42: When terrorism becomes routine
There was a terrorist attack in New York this week. A self-professed ISIS disciple used a rented truck to run down pedestrians and cyclists on a busy New York street,…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 41: Now the hard part begins for the UPC
The United Conservative Party – somehow fresh-faced and old at the same time – has chosen its first leader. Jason Kenney, a career politician who has spent his entire life…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 40: The photo-op PM wearing thin
The bloom is off the Justin Trudeau rose, and the opposition (and much of the media) is in full attack mode. The government is in mid-term stumble right now, lurching…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 39: The world of perpetual crisis
I’m too young to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis (what a pleasure, for once, to be ‘too young’ to remember something). From what I know of it, it sounds like…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 38: Trans Canada pulls the plug; Vegas joins the club
Pipeline builder Trans Canada dropped a bomb on the Liberal government on Thursday when it cancelled its $15.7-billion proposed Energy East pipeline, which was designed to carry 1.1-million barrels a…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 37: Terrorism in my backyard
You know that it could happen in your town. You just don’t expect that it will. I went to the Edmonton Eskimo game last night, and as I entered the…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 36: Trudeau vs. Trump
Donald Trump, the increasingly, dangerously irrational U.S. president, addressed the UN General Assembly this week. So, too, did Justin Trudeau, the poster boy for all that is liberal in the…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 35: A game as old as hockey itself.
There was big news from Alberta’s second city this week — the Calgary Flames are unhappy. And if the Flames are unhappy, ain’t nobody happy. As you may have heard,…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 34: Dear Earth …
Dear Earth: This is a difficult letter for us to write, but something has to be said. Are you mad at us? I mean, seriously, seriously angry? It sure seems…