This week, the Trudeau government approved two pipelines, and rejected one other. Trudeau is winning lavish praise for his bold, statesmanlike decision in some quarters, hyperbolic, end-of-the-world scorn from others.…
Is the shine coming off the golden boy? Justin Trudeau is under the gun these days for what appear to be, if not lapses in ethics, at least some questionable…
The fallout from the Nov. 8 U.S. election continued this week. And just like nuclear fallout, the devastation will be long term. President-elect Donald Trump (my fingers had a hard…
As always, The Simpsons predicted the future. In a season 9 episode called Trash of the Titans, Homer runs for sanitation commissioner against career civil servant Ray Patterson, voiced by…
Did you know that our shiny new, Canada-is-back Liberal government has set a new goal for the number of immigrants we will accept this year? That number is 320,000 immigrants…
See if you can guess in which country the following prison horror story took place. A 24-year-old man, accused of killing another inmate back in 2012, has been held in…
For a few moments during Wednesday’s presidential debate (mercifully the last), Donald Trump appeared almost presidential. He said exactly the same things he has said at every debate, but at…
The American election campaign, which was already the worst in history, imploded this week. The week began with a presidential debate widely seen as the worst in history. Donald Trump,…
Even the Teflon Don can’t get out of this one. Everyone except his most fanatical supporters knows Trump is a pig, a boor, a crass, classless thug. Now we have…
There’s nothing else to say about the U.S. election anymore, is there? But I will anyway. The Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump, is demonstrably and unquestionably a horrifying candidate, the…
The Trudeau government, less than a year old, has certainly adopted well to governing. Like most governments, the Trudeau Liberals have found that there is a surprising amount of money…
November of 2014 marked the 40th anniversary of the opening of the old Northlands Coliseum, later renamed Skyreach Centre, later renamed Rexall Place, now back to Northlands Coliseum. As I…
Stuff Still Happens, week 37: Judging the judges
This week, an Alberta judge found Travis Vader guilty in the deaths of elderly couple Lyle and Marie McCann. Queen’s Bench Justice Denny Thomas found Vader guilty of second degree…