My “Letter from Calgary” column from the mid-October 2011 issue of the Investment Executive newspaper: High-profile figures such as Manning and Lougheed are weighing in on a new oil and gas development. They should let well enough alone The technocrats are at it again. Experienced people of high standing and nominally conservative bent are annoyed [...]
The fortuitous invitation of friends sometimes makes it possible to visit places that you would otherwise not be drawn to. This was the case last week when we took a diversion through Switzerland. The personal visit was very pleasant but the touristic part reinforced the question of why one would ever visit the country. First, [...]
If there weren’t enough reason already to use the Globe and Mail solely as bird-cage-liner, more emerges with time. Now there’s this: climate change “deniers” are disproportionately – you guessed it – middle-aged white men. The G&M blog post by Adriana Barton quotes an article from, of all places, Scientific American which asserts that 48% [...]
“Merkel under seige” – Headline in MacLean’s, October 10th, 2010 issue When I first saw this bold, almost inch-high type I thought perhaps the Chancellor had been caught in some kind of Strauss-Kahnesque sex scandal with someone named “Seige”. That would be pronounced “Sigh-guh” in German. But no, it was another failure of Spellcheck and, while [...]
Albertans and sympathetic Canadians may soon wonder how Canada’s most politically-conservative province could elect a small-L liberal premier. Let’s just say it’s a result of our particular, some would say peculiar, political culture. Alberta’s political culture is known for electing long-lived, right-of-centre, ruling dynasties. In fact Ernest Manning, the province’s long-serving Social Credit premier undertook [...]
“This is a chrysalis of what’s wrong with this administration” – Gerri Willis, Fox Business Commentator as interviewed on the O’Reilly Factor Pouring billions of U.S.taxpayers’ dollars down green jobs ratholes is a story that may have a decisive impact on the accelerating presidential race. Controversially, coverage of the mess has been spotty, to say the [...]