Happy New Year — Homo Deus!
The year just ended has been one of the most tumultuous in recent memory. The year ahead is likely to be even more so. History is always being made, but
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The year just ended has been one of the most tumultuous in recent memory. The year ahead is likely to be even more so. History is always being made, but
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In Canada, the political issue of the moment is discussion of a selective boycott, divestment, and sanctions directed toward some Israeli corporate enterprises (both government and non-government). The conversation is
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In August I was invited to the Banff Centre, to mingle with about 450 teachers for 3 1/2 days, as they explored and developed a variety of education-related issues and
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Trevor Harrison has written an interesting column that I read in the Winnipeg Free Press, headlined “Power Brokers Unwittingly Destroyed the Conservative Party“. They were certainly one cause of the
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A thoughtful reader has commented that he was surprised at the number of Albertans who ‘hated’ the N.D.P., notwithstanding the number of votes they received in the recent Alberta election.
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Congratulations Ms. Notley! Premier-Designate Notley may be exhausted by an exciting and successful campaign. She gets no respite. It is noon on Election Day, plus 1, and Ms. Notley is
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As the Alberta election campaign comes to a close, and as the P.C.s become frantic, we hear two new arguments being made. 1. Albertans are being told — stridently —
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Readers will know that I was a 15 year P.C. M.L.A. and a Cabinet Minister for 7 years in the early years of Alberta’s Progressive Conservative government. In fact, I
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In the course of the current election campaign, the Alberta P.C. Party finds itself in dangerous – perhaps fatal – straits. It cannot focus on the quality of its team,
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The Spur Calgary Festival has just wrapped up with a panel discussion I wish I could have taken in. (Note to organizers: think livestreaming and/or Youtube.) Danielle Smith, former Wild
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