Columns

This past week controversy arose following the use of Premier Rachel Notley’s photo as a target for a golf tournament, instigated by Ernest Bothi, president of the Brooks Big Country Oilmen’s Association.

As a former social worker, and founding executive director of St. Albert Stop Abuse in Families Society, I am well aware of the devastation that abuse can cause to seniors.

Albertans are hurting – that much should be obvious. After flying so high for so long, the Alberta economy nose-dived into the ground at full speed, and the casualties are spread out all over the province.

Stanford student and athlete Brock Allan Turner was found guilty of rape this week, after being discovered on top of an unconscious woman behind a dumpster in January 2015.

In 1909 British author E.M. Forster wrote a prophetic piece of fiction called ‘The Machine Stops.

Does Alberta need to have a revolution? Not a revolution like the Bolshevik, French, or American revolutions, which saw the overthrow and change from oppressive powers (though there are mutterings for Alberta separatism from some quarters).

Indigenous issues have been all over the news, from the Attawapiskat crisis to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

When statisticians, mathematicians and physicists look at the distribution of factors in all the sciences, they uniformly use the term ‘normal distribution.

Recently Rebel Media reported that students from the University of Alberta were protesting the left-wing nature of some classes – more specifically, Education 211: “Aboriginal Educational Context Engagement.

“84% of college graduates wish they were taught more about money.