Speeches still matter
Sixteen powerful minutes. The world listened as Mark Carney crystallized the new world order and then instructed the middle powers in how to deal with…
China … our new friend?
Canadians might be excused for not knowing who their friends are these days. Our best friend, our buddy, the United States, has in hardly a…
Calgary’s water problem and the cost of sprawl
Calgary has been having water problems lately. In June 2024, the city’s largest water line, the main feeder from the Bearspaw reservoir, broke, triggering severe…
They are debating this?
The Americans are engaged in furious debate over yet another shooting. The debate is highly polarized, one side saying the death was murder, the other…
Billionaires make way for the trillionaires
The little-loved Elon Musk is odds-on favourite to become the world’s first trillionaire. He is, after all, the richest man in the world. There are…
Trump gets a 51st state
Of the interminable obnoxious comments by the U.S. president, one that particularly galled us Canadians was his threat to make Canada the 51st state. No…