Columns

Jock Finlayson of the Business Council of British Columbia recently wrote a column for Troy Media on the virtues of the Canada-European Union free trade deal.

While teaching environmental law for 27 years, I read a lot about environmental damage and climate change.

Pitting different groups against one another and encouraging an “us versus them” mentality is popular in Canada.

What is the common link between the Industrial Revolution, Margaret Thatcher, and the foreign worker scandal? At first, the answer is not obvious because of the gaps in history, but there is a link – capitalism.

One can’t help but be amused at the slant of the western press in its reportage on the North Korean strident threats to fire a nuclear missile on somebody. Kim Jong Un is being portrayed as an unstable adolescent who is out of control.

CALGARY – Margaret Thatcher and Annette Funicello: both gone, both in one week. What’s a baby boomer to do? One an icon of British conservatism; the other a memento to the beach-party optimism of the 1960s.

It is with some degree of surreal abstraction that most Canadians watch the deplorable ethnocultural violence that seems to be plaguing our world of late.

"Reformers believe that the duty of elected members to their constituents should come before their obligation to their party.

Two recent developments involving the Conservative Party of Alberta (and therefore the government of Alberta) bear discussion this month. The first involves the passing of our former premier Ralph Klein.

By his own account, the intertwining of Calgary academic and political activist Thomas Flanagan with the highly charged issue of child pornography began in the early ’90s when he was on the staff of Preston Manning’s Reform Party.