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Recently, a group of St. Albertans wanted to send their kids to space camp in Québec but they lost $228,000 when the travel company went under. The kids were sad. The parents were pretty sad too, I bet.

Come on teachers – give Education Minister Jeff Johnson a break. To begin with, the Task Force for Teaching Excellence final report was not authored by the minster of education and has not been adopted as government policy.

There is a silly modern theory that everyone is good at something, so it should come as no surprise that this logic has also been applied to nations.

In 2012, it seemed as though Alberta's long-running Progressive Conservative dynasty was finished. The Wildrose Alliance party, led by Danielle Smith, was set to form government. Hence it was all the more shocking that the Wildrose lost the election.

During the night of April 14, men stormed a school in Nigeria where girls were sleeping. Forced onto buses, 234 of them were taken away.

HonorĂ© de Balzac once stated: “A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Sixty years ago this morning I listened to a sombre radio announcer intone, “Dien Bien Phu has fallen.” Scant hours earlier Viet Minh rebels had overrun the French fortress in Indochina.

Canadian foreign policy has suffered from its ad hoc nature, being reactionary rather than forward looking. This is because, for the most part, it has been designed to appease domestic pressures as they arise.

I have long been intrigued about the standards used in measuring success in politics. To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck, success in the world of politicians is the ability to perfect the art of the possible.

Does the Capital Region Board meet the dreams and expectations stated in the report produced by Lou Hyndman, former Alberta cabinet minister and chair of the 2000 report of the Alberta Capital Region Governance Review? We need to go back a bit in thi