No (Arabic) peace songs on Remembrance Day
The story as I understand it from what I read in the media goes as follows. A Palestinian teacher at Sir Robert Borden High School…
… a Bill Longstaff blog
The story as I understand it from what I read in the media goes as follows. A Palestinian teacher at Sir Robert Borden High School…
President-elect Donald Trump values loyalty above all. He has never hesitated to use menace and harassment to coerce into line or if necessary purge those…
How, exactly, does a such a creature as Donald Trump become president of the most powerful nation on Earth? The blame falls primarily, of course,…
Did the American people just vote, in a free and fair election, to terminate their experiment in Republican government? They’ve had a good run—248 years—but…
When Alberta Premier Danielle Smith rails against the federal Liberals as she is inclined to do, I usually find myself agreeing with the feds. This…
Quite a list of American publications, including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Las Vegas Sun and The New Yorker, have endorsed Kamala…
The announcement that Ontario’s Conservative government had appointed Dr. Jane Philpott, former federal Liberal cabinet minister, to head a team mandated to connect all Ontarians…
Little sets environmentalists’ teeth on edge more than fracking. The technique was long-used with conventional vertical oil and gas wells to stimulate production. Hydraulic fluids…
In less than two weeks the world’s most important election will take place, and the world awaits with baited breath. The result could be very…
Conservatives love rhyming slogans. Alberta’s Conservative government has come up with a dandy in their latest fight with the feds: “scrap the cap.” The cap…
Statistics Canada recently reported that in at least one respect this country is moving in the wrong direction. Income inequality has risen to the highest…
I believe in free markets, at least for most commerce. As do most Albertans. Partly because they believe a free market in oil made them…