Apple — moving us from water to land?
Apple made more product announcements yesterday. Some hardware people got excited, some software people got excited, some OS people got excited. The thing that continues to impress me about Apple
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Apple made more product announcements yesterday. Some hardware people got excited, some software people got excited, some OS people got excited. The thing that continues to impress me about Apple
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Alberta’s new Premier has any number of important decisions to make. Depending upon the decisions themselves, Albertans may interpret some of them as overdue acts of redemption on behalf
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I spoke to local government representatives in Grande Prairie to-day. My thanks to Mayor Bill Given for setting up the opportunity, and my thanks, as well, to an attentive and
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In fewer than 10 days Albertans who are card-carrying members of the Progressive Conservative Party will begin the election of a new Party Leader, and Premier of the province. The
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This past week I spent almost four days with The Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) at the Banff Centre, at their Summer Conference. For more than 60 years the ATA has
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On June 8th, the Washington Post carried a fascinating article by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, a retrospective about the Watergate affair (here). It speaks to ‘aerogate’ in Alberta. Quoting
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Today’s Edmonton Journal (A20) carries a Letter to the Editor (Blame former Premier only) that epitomizes how challenging it is to understand politics in Alberta. The writer argues that former
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This post is spurred by a couple of interesting pieces in the most recent edition of the University of Alberta New Trail (alumni magazine). Deconstructing Leadership (read here) and Leadership
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The Washington Post blog carried a post worth reading (here) on Thursday, about the death of James MacGregor Burns. Burns published his most notable work, Leadership, in 1978, and won
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As someone who spent seven years as Minister of Education in Alberta, I have considerable experience with the terrain that the current Minister, Jeff Johnson, is treading. He has chosen
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