Columns

Sometimes public health care is like the human body. When you have an ailment in one area, you need to look somewhere else in the anatomy for the cause. Long wait times for hip and knee replacements are a good example.

Alison Redford is no Ralph Klein. She loves process. Around the middle of the campaign the Calgary Herald ran an analysis of a recent poll with the headline that we "have just seen the worst six weeks in PC history.

Although I don’t own a bat’leth, I do know what one is.

Now that was a cool election. I don’t mean who won. Rather it was the dynamics of the process we went through – and the really quite dramatic shift that we are about to see in the body politic of this province.

I have just completed my evening ritual before turning in.

Last week the Canadian Institute for Health Information lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding the performance of Canadian hospitals with its Canadian Hospital Reporting Project, an interactive website that measures the performance of Canadian hospit

Economic development has been debated and kicked around in the city and in recent columns of Business Buzz.

It's been quite a while since I bought a new car, but a few weeks ago, I took the plunge and bought some new wheels.

Now and again one sees or reads about an event that truly catches one’s imagination. This experience happened to me a couple of weeks ago watching BBC World News while on a treadmill.

Back in the late 1960s, a freshly minted regular force military officer, I met a man who had just begun working for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He handled persons receiving government assistance because of their wartime service.