Columns

Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ Haiti on Dec. 6, 1492. About one million inhabitants were living off agriculture and fishing when he landed. Fifty years later they were gone.

As Valentine’s Day quickly approaches, I find myself running for shelter – yet again. The day of love comes upon us with a vengeance in mid-January with retailers stocking their shelves with everything red and romantic.

“Please God, let there be another oil boom. I promise not to piss it all away next time.” I’m sure we all remember that 1980s bumper sticker, but guess what – we’ve done it again.

Winston Churchill once observed “democracy is the absolute worst possible form of government, until you consider all the alternatives.

Any notion that all is well in Canada’s justice system took a hard body shot locally in January.

Alberta is arguably the most blessed jurisdiction in North America.

“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?” Oprah Winfrey didn’t ask this of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong during her recent interviews, but in light of suggestions that he lied to her about whe

Three business items caught my attention while watching early morning business news.

Right-wingers are hard-working entrepreneurs who get up early on Saturday to take their kids to hockey practice, and stop at Tim Hortons for coffee on their way to work.

Over the last few weeks, the media has expended a lot of time and attention to the Idle No More movement, and in this matter, the movement has served its purpose: to bring attention to the growing tensions between First Nations people and the governm