David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Brian Brennan’s Leaving Dublin: From...
Leaving Dublin...A good memoir is no easy thing to write, and I can tell you that without ever having bothered to read one before.I mean, really, why would I read someone’s memoirs, for crying out...
View ArticleDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Whatever became of the investigation into...
The Tory membership list, purloined again! Alberta Conservative campaign strategists may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Premier Alison Redford; PC Party President Bill Smith.Now that the Alberta...
View ArticleDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The jury’s out – or it should be, anyway –...
Premier Alison Redford of the Popular Conservatives is really popular with these guys, you can just tell!Wow! This just in! Alison Redford is so popular….How popular is she?Alberta’s new premier is so...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Stephanie Larocque highlights the Cons’ gall in hanging onto federal reimbursements from their own ad scam even after having admitted their guilt: You don’t...
View ArticleDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The last insignificant link between the...
Brian Brennan, at left, accepting a piece of paper from a copy boy. Your blogger remembers that haircut, and thinks he had one a lot like it himself. As for the copy boy? That’s Roman Cooney, now VP of...
View ArticleDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Pulp friction: Edmonton Journal quits...
The future of the press in Alberta, what’s left of it? If you didn’t shoot that angel, your only option is to sue. Below: Edmonton Journal publisher John Connolly. If you have a problem with something...
View ArticleCalgaryLiberal: Raj Rescues Folks in Rollover
Earlier today Raj Sherman help rescue three people who had rolled off the road on Highway 2 (Calgary Herald). This is one of the reasons why I really like Raj Sherman as a human being: this selfless,...
View ArticleDeSmogBlog: B.C. Protest This Saturday to Stop Warren Buffett’s BNSF Coal Trains
shutterstock_14976709.jpg Warren Buffett, the third wealthiest man on the planet (net worth: $44 billion), often referred to as the "Oracle of Omaha," is the target of a May 5 action called for by...
View ArticleDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The 100th Calgary Stampede: real men don’t...
A chuckwagon race in 1924 – then and now, unquestionably exiting and unquestionably cruel. Time for it to stop. Below: Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, both looking...
View ArticleDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: ToastMedia News announces cuts, dropped...
PostMedia CEO Paul Godfrey holds a translation of his memorandum to the chain’s newspaper staff yesterday. Warning, senior Canadian newspaper executives may not appear exactly as illustrated, or as...
View ArticleLeftist Jab: Calgary Herald’s Licia Corbella’s Courageous Position on the...
It takes courage to go against the grain. When a conservative columnist feels the need to voice her unique insights regarding the Montreal teacher that showed the Luka Magnotta dismemberment video, you...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Big money speaks quietly to the recalcitrant Calgary Stampede...
Cowboys in the aftermath of a bad chuckwagon spill at the 1937 Calgary Stampede. Below: Chuckwagon races as they’re supposed to appear; Stampede Programming VP Paul Rosenberg; Bell Canada logo of yore....
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald to shed more staff as...
Peering through the fence at the newspaper business in 2012. Canadian newspapers may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Edmonton Journal editor in chief Lucinda Chodan. The newspaper industry was...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Chuckwagon carnage: Three horses die and Calgary Stampede...
A chuckwagon race at the Calgary Stampede in 1957. Canada’s greatest city? Below: One resident of Canada’s greatest city camps it up for the occasion. “Autopsy shows lead horse in chuckwagon accident...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Brock Ketcham, 64, newsman and trade unionist; polite,...
Brock Ketcham, left, and the author on the picket line at the Calgary Herald, circa 2000. My old brothers and sisters from the Calgary Herald strike will be saddened to learn of the death on Saturday...
View Articlecalgaryliberal.com: By-Election Update: Tories Flipping to Liberals in...
There’s a split in Calgary in the conservatives. And it’s about principles. Calgary Herald: Provincial rift spreads to federal realm Calgary Herald: “Pat Moore says she doesn’t like the way the...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: HMS Alberta Tory: All hands to damage control! Is Commodore...
The scene in the Alberta Legislature yesterday, with Premier Alison Redford at the centre of things. Actual Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Gary Mar, Premier John...
View Articlecalgaryliberal.com: I’m with Raj. (Mergers, Kent Hehr, cont.)
Just pointing something out here. Raj Sherman says Kent Hehr can speak his mind on mergers and the very base frustration that the Liberal MLA from Buffalo has with politics as they stand in Alberta....
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Putting Christ back in Christmas: maybe Christians themselves...
Jesus, centre, separates the sheep from the goats. Don’t ask what happens to the goats. Below: St. Paul and modern Evangelical favourite Ayn Rand. Today is Christmas, and thus an opportunity for many...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: West-East Tar Sands Pipeline: New Brunswick Premier...
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 3, 2013: New Brunswick Premier David Alward really wants Alberta’s tar sands to flow to the world through his province. To accelerate Prime Minister...
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