NatPost columnist Colby Cosh recently made the mistake of buying a new computer game which allows you to re-create the assasination of JFK, and made the further mistake of writing rather gleefully about the game on his blog:
You can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you, Mr. President
“With the “chaos level” of the motorcade increased in […]
For political junkies, nothing rocks more than leadership politics. Which is why Alberta is going to be such a hot item of discussion for the next while.
Which brings us to two new items. First, Klein failed to appoint Ted Morton to his new cabinet. Second, he brought back Rod Love as his chief of […]
Adam Yoshida presents a negative, but intriguing, interpretation of the events unfolding in Ukraine:
Are We Back in 1938?
“My expectation is that, at the present time, President Putin is waiting for some pre-arranged signal. Probably rioting by opposition protestors which spins “out of control” which will be followed by a request for the assistance of Ukraine’s […]
Was I hasty in the last post on the Alberta Alliance? Yes indeed. But election night was full of interesting tid-bits anyway. Here are a few observations, listed in order of importance.
Ralph Klein won a massive majority government, four in a row. No matter what wet blanket election-night commentators could find to toss on that […]
So finally Parrish gets a thigh strapping for her idiocy and leftist emotional anti-USA rants. It’s about time, talk about a loser statesman. It seems the only feat of political ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ this ridiculous mouthpiece has ever had is, well, her Bush bashing. ‘Lord, please give us some originality,’ some may pray, but […]
11 minutes after the polls close, and the CBC is showing an Alberta Alliance sweep!
Oh, those mischevious Medicine Hatters…
UPDATE: OK, that was fun. The first poll to report was one from Medicine Hat, and the Alliance was in front. In the meantime, the Tories have surged ahead and the Liberals have around four seats. […]
The Ontario government has set aside $1.7m to help foreign-trained doctors to find work in the province, which is suffering under the nation-wide doctor shortage. There are many foreign-trained doctors in Canada who do not yet have licensing.
Is this seriously the first time this idea has occurred to anybody in government? Let’s see, we have […]
Bill Clinton has unveiled his “gift to the future” (his own words). What is this gift, you ask? A $165m museum of himself! It contains 80 million items from his eight years in office documenting his “building of bridges from today to tomorrow, across racial and religious and ethnic and income and political divides” and […]
Platt provides an excellent, if crude, example of the organic culture that has developed in Alberta. Thousands of Albertan families, including my own, share in the folklore of the National Energy Program, which informs the thoughts and behaviors of Albertans to this day:
Beer brouhaha
“The mid-’80s were grim in this province, with crashing oil prices combining […]
Alberta premier Ralph Klein went on record stating that he had no preference for private or public healthcare, as long as results were delivered. He said that the most important thing was the health of Canadians.
This type of thinking is a breath of fresh air. Too many in Canada are obsessed with socialist mantras, caring […]
