Columns

As every poker player knows, you can parlay a weak hand into victory with a good bluff. The cards you are dealt are only a fraction of the game. It is what you can make your opponents believe that matters most.

As I strolled along the path by our home, with winter flakes drifting in torrents, my first thought was how much extra time I would need on my commute.

I remember a news clip decades ago announcing a new retailer was moving into Canada.

In 2010, an enlightened Ontario court judge permitted reporters to use social media during the court appearance of a military officer accused of assaulting and murdering two women.

This column finds me on the road or more precisely, in the air. As I left Victoria B.C., after a weekend of naval training, I realized that in the span of 24 hours I would touch down in five cities in five different provinces.

While Prime Minister Stephen Harper is off on an Asian tour, looking to sell Canada’s virtues, one cannot help but wonder whether he is now leading Canada down the wrong, worn path? His marketing strategy, something right out of the 1980s, is t

I swear, I have rarely seen my neighbours interact with each other. Last week’s storm changed all that. Day one of the storm was hunker down day. Stay off the roads day. And bake cookies day. Much like preparing for Christmas.

The year was 1932. One in four Americans was out of work – 13 million unemployed. Wages had dropped more than 40 per cent following the stock market crash three years earlier.

It is municipal budget time again in Alberta, and all the rhetoric is beginning to unfold.

You can’t go anywhere lately without hearing the Korean pop star Psy’s big hit Gangnam Style. Not that I’m complaining … at least not yet. Like the rest of the world, I really like the satirical singer’s catchy song.