Leaked Ad: Minimum Wage
This is the second ad in a set of three. The first ad was on education and this one is on the minimum wage (which is pertinent because of it…
Alberta
US Dept. of Transportation orders TransCanada to halt activity on Keystone I
Effective immediately, the US Department of Transportation has ordered TransCanada to suspend all activity on the Keystone I pipeline. According to the New York Times, the order was issued by…
Health queue jumping
Don’t be surprised at health queue jumping. We have a medico monopoly in all of its aspects. In this type of atmosphere there can be no health truths and no…
UK Opposed to Europe’s Tar Sands Import Ban
tar sands.jpg While most European countries are working on a proposal that would effectively ban the use of Canadian tar sands in the European Union, the United Kingdom has made…
Awww! Jason Kenney! My Heart Is Breaking! Somebody Get Him a Fainting Couch!
Poor Jason Kenney! By extension, poor, poor Harpercons! My heart bleeds for you! Now we understand why Stevie Spiteful wants to have elected senators. It appears to be all about…
Environment Minister Sets Canada’s Carbon Policy
Environment Minister Peter Kent sets the tone of Canada’s carbon policy for the next four years in his first interview after the federal election that resulted in a Conservative majority.…
Disaster: Slave Lake Burning To The Ground
With relatively little news published Sunday on the wildfires raging in northern Alberta, many Canadians will awake Monday morning to learn with surprise and shock the town of Slave Lake…
The Landslide Election Victory That Isn’t
I initially had a vague plan for this post but have decided to go with whatever comes to mind to create an election commentary medley of sorts. Actually, it more…
Oil Spills: The beavers do it better.
Media scan: David Suzuki - Alberta’s biggest oil spill in 30 years is a call to action for Canadians BBC - Oil spill in Canada’s Alberta ‘biggest in 35 years’…
Access to Post-Secondary Education
I recently had the chance to read a 2008 book entitled Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters? Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada. Edited by Ross Finnie, Richard…
Next deadlock: Alberta
I refuse to believe that the people of Alberta are as socially conservative and right wing as their political representation suggests. I do not believe that the people of Alberta…
Sustainability Becoming Required Course In MBA
Leading business schools in Canada and around the world are adding sustainability to their required MBA curricula. Oxford in the U.K., INSEAD in France, and York University in Canada are…
Secondary Suites And The Right To Affordable Housing
In December 2007, at the height of Calgary’s housing crunch, a report emerged from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation that confirmed what many had long suspected: the cost of…
Metro column: Focusing on the individual, not the party
I’m not a big fan of party politics. I could care less which party is in charge. I care more about who the people in government are and what kinds…
On Being a Teacher, or Why Merit Pay Stinks.
I’m taking a course on organizational theory right now and the readings have caused me to reflect on an issue that is getting a fair deal of play in education…
Alberta Election
I am starting to look forward to the upcoming Alberta provincial election in 2012. Of particular interest to me are the candidates who will emerge in support of Green Principles.…
Life is Bigger than Politics
News was released today that former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This is a horrible disease that has no cure and robs the body…
Tar on the Tusks – The Walrus sells out to Big Oil
Canada's preeminent culture magazine has let Big Oil lie about the tar sands on its pages.
Holy Biased Poll
I realize website polls are primarily for entertainment and shouldn't be taken seriously, especially not on a hyper-conservative radio site.But this poll really stuck out as having a totally meaningless,…
When a Witch Weighs the Same as a Duck
Ed Stelmach's communication style is oblique and opaque most of the time. Opaque in the sense of being impenetrable by light. Today he all but confirmed that Stephen Duckett would…