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Will a tragic coincidence end the American experiment? Why is there never enough? A noble Nobel winner Our greed is showing Stemming the leakage
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The death graph

Sep 29, 2021

A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. It’s true for me anyway. Maybe it’s my engineering background, but charts, graphs, etc. often make…

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Vote Kinney for Senator

Sep 26, 2021

Now that the federal election is out of the way, I turn my attention to the upcoming Calgary municipal election. Both the mayor and the…

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Big climate promises at the UN … but

Sep 23, 2021

The United States and China, rivals on the world stage and also the two biggest economies and the two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases made…

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Are the new Conservatives the old Conservatives?

Sep 23, 2021

Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives showed a new face during the recent campaign. A surprisingly progressive one. The leader said the party has let Canadians down, citing…

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“Help”

Sep 22, 2021

“Effective September 15, 2021, the Government of Alberta has declared a State of Public Health Emergency. … We have identified two areas where the federal…

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A fine result

Sep 21, 2021

Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister. Over $600 million to change absolutely nothing. Over $100 million more than the 2019 election, primarily because of the cost…

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Alberta needs a new Lougheed for a new era

Aug 20, 2021

Fifty years ago, Alberta entered the modern era. With the provincial election of August, 1971, Albertans dismissed Social Credit, their governing party for 36 years,…

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A Vote Compass surprise

Aug 18, 2021

Being a sucker for surveys, I couldn’t resist the Vote Compass survey on the CBC News website. The survey purports to locate your position on…

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Alberta’s debt to the Maldives

Aug 16, 2021

As humanity continues to heat the planet, there are winners and losers. Let me rephrase that. Ultimately nobody wins; in the long term if global…

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Voting strategically in an election we don’t need

Aug 15, 2021

So we are to have an unnecessary election. Didn’t we make our views clear enough in 2019? We didn’t give one of the parties a…

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From Cuba to Myanmar, the military as entrepreneurial enemies of democracy

Aug 11, 2021

Heavily dependent on tourism, the Cuban economy has been hit hard by the pandemic’s restrictions on travel. The loss of Canadian tourists is a particularly…

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Canada’s progressive tilt—mitigating first-past-the-post

Aug 8, 2021

From 2006 to 2015 we endured a decade of Conservative rule even though the Conservatives never won the support of even 40 percent of Canadian…

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Featured posts
  • The U.S. changes sides, whither Canada?
    August 15, 2025
  • Alberta, tribalism, luck and oil
    May 24, 2025
  • Yes, Trump really is crazy
    April 7, 2025
  • It’s the cruelty that appals
    March 16, 2025
  • The hypocrisy of exporting fossil fuel emissions
    November 29, 2024
  • What is the real price of your hamburger?
    September 23, 2024
  • Premier Smith and the fascist hatemonger
    August 27, 2024
  • Sweden—a model economy
    August 15, 2024
  • The most important history lesson
    March 23, 2024
  • Terrorism—weapon of the oppressed?
    October 9, 2023
  • Are we on a path to sustainability?
    May 7, 2023
  • Conservatives and the CBC
    March 2, 2023
  • Dismissing the low taxes myth
    February 26, 2023
  • The “racialized” fallacy … or how to (or not to) compare ethnic groups
    March 9, 2022
  • How races differ
    May 21, 2021

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