Views from the Beltline

All those years ago when I earned my keep in the oil patch, I was fortunate to toil for Shell Canada. I was paid well,…

As a committed democrat, I would dearly love to be able to convince doubters of democracy’s superiority by pointing to its leaders. And in the…

Sometimes you just have to take a stand. Enough is enough. Throughout its long history, the magazine Scientific American has kept to science and left…

Alberta is the land of oil and gas, right? And of cowboys and rodeos. And mountains and skiing. No surprises there. But here’s a surprise.…

Some surprising results in an Angus Reid survey of Albertans this week. The UCP and the NDP are tied in voter support, each at 38…

In the 1967 film “The Graduate,” young Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman), fresh out of college, is taken aside by a middle-aged neighbour at…

Reading The Guardian last week, two articles captured my attention. Set side by side were “A ‘tyrant-clown’ has destroyed my love affair with America” by…

Guy Smith, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), sees a disturbing trend in the province. He suggests that, under the rule of…

In times of economic crisis, an old but good idea to maintain employment is revived. COVID has brought just such a revival. With unemployment in…

Our premier and I come at politics from such different angles, it always comes as a surprise to me when I find myself agreeing with…

A recent Pew Research Center survey of 14 advanced countries indicated that most people (a median of 73 percent) believe their country has done a…

Every Canadian concerned about the quality of democracy in this country frets about the inability of our electoral system to do the thing it exists…