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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

07/08/2016 by Contributor

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its cozy confines. The money has been raised, the relief cheques have been sent out, the insurance claims are in, the liquor stores are operational, and […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Alberta, business, Canada, Canadian Red Cross, disaster, Fort McMurray, refugees

Hatred on an Alberta golf course

06/20/2016 by the editor

For years I have been warning that hatred kills. Like it did in Orlando last Sunday. Or like it did in Britain last Thursday. When the gentle, decent Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death by a another cowardly bigot. And I’ve also warned that the same poison was spreading in Canada. Where […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta New Democratic Party, Brian Jean, Britain, Canada, crime, Ezra Levant, GLBT, GLBTQ, Justin Trudeau, Rachel Notley, U.S., violence, Wildrose Party

Our selective sympathy

06/12/2016 by the editor

By Brady Tighe It is a powerful thing to see the destroyed homes of the Beacon Hill neighborhood in Fort McMurray — husks of buildings that once contained a family, their possessions, their memories, their keepsakes, their records, and their favourite throw pillows; everything minor and major, wiped out by an implacable force. The destruction […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Alberta, disaster, Fort McMurray, refugees, Syria

Fort McMurray’s caustic cycle

05/16/2016 by Contributor

By Brady Tighe When I fly up to Fort McMurray for a seven-day shift in camp, there are some things I expect: Bad coffee, salty food, miserable weather that ranges from vicious heat to teeth-shattering cold, profanity, talk about sports teams that suck, bugs the size of Buicks, country music that makes me want to […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Alberta, business, corporations, disaster, Fort McMurray, oil, oil sands, tar sands

The Libs pass the science test

02/06/2016 by the editor

By Mark Leiren-Young In yet another sign that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have a very different approach to drugs than the previous government, federal Health Minister Jane Philpott yesterday toured Insite, the long-standing supervised injection site on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and called the experience ‘incredibly moving.’”– CBC News Federal Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo says science will […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Conservatives, drugs, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Hunter Tootoo, Jane Philpott, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, oceans, Ontario, Stephen Harper, Tony Clement, Vancouver

“Dear Mr. Harper . . . you’ve underestimated us.”

10/19/2015 by the editor

Mary Cleaver posted this open letter to Stephen Harper on facebook earlier this month. This election, backofthebook.ca endorses Mary Cleaver. Dear Mr. Harper, I live in BC with my husband and two little girls. I grew up in Calgary and have many friends and family members there. I’m white and in my early 40s. One […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Canada, Canadian military, Canadian politics, CBC, climate change, Conservatives, economy, First Nations, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, immigrations, oceans, poverty, science, Stephen Harper, veterans

Stephen Harper’s phony regionalism

08/21/2015 by the editor

By Frank Moher Benjamin Perrin’s testimony on Thursday reminded us that, regardless of what Stephen Harper knew or when, every tendril in the Duffy scandal leads back to the Prime Minister, and his insistence that hapless Mike pretend he lives in P.E.I. When Duffy’s Senate appointment was first mooted, it was Harper, not Duffy, who decided […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Benjamin Perrin, Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian Senate, crime, law, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, Ottawa, Preston Manning, Prince Edward Island, Ray Novak, Senate scandal, Stephen Harper

Notley and Barrett: The same, only different

05/08/2015 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh I wasn’t there, but I bet a lot of tears were shed by Alberta NDP oldtimers last night at the party’s giddy, raucous ‘n’ rollin’ victory celebration in Edmonton. That was certainly the order of the evening on a similar dragon-slaying night long ago, out here in British Columbia. On Aug. 30, […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta New Democratic Party, BC New Democrats, British Columbia, Canada, Conservative Party of Alberta, Dave Barrett, Edmonton, Jim Prentice, Rachel Notley, Social Credit, W.A.C. Bennett

Alberta remembers itself

05/06/2015 by the editor

By Frank Moher We ought not to be gobsmacked by the results of the Alberta election, although, of course, we are. But this Alberta has always lived below its surface, and even emerged into the air sometimes, as it did last night. It is the Alberta of the United Farmers of Alberta, who took power in […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta New Democratic Party, Calgary, Canada, Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, Jim Prentice, Naheed Nenshi, Peter Lougheed, Rachel Notley, Ralph Klein, Social Credit, Steven Harper, United Farmers of Alberta

In Alberta, democracy is due for a comeback

05/04/2015 by the editor

By Kenneth Brown As the NDP has steadily climbed the polls in Alberta, it has become evident that there is a real possibility of them forming the next government. As this has happened, many people, including people I like and respect, have expressed doubts about whether they are capable of managing something so difficult and important […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta New Democratic Party, Canada, Conservative Party of Alberta, Peter Lougheed, Social Credit

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

Nathan Cullen

Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

Trudeau on quantum computing

The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

Rick Meyers in Nanaimo Pride Parade

My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

Stephen Colbert on Late Night set

Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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