Opinion

I admit that I spent some time on the weekend preparing an emergency kit in the event disaster strikes — perhaps in the form of a full-fledged pandemic.

Even casual observers of the justice system know that drugs are at the root of the vast majority of court cases.

“I don’t look like Halle Berry,” said Whoopie Goldberg in a recent interview. “But chances are, she’s going to end up looking like me.”

My dying mother waited in vain for the phone call from her adult grandchildren.They’d been part of a tangled, acrimonious divorce years earlier, yet they had kept a warm place in their hearts for my mom, until the end.

To the Alberta government, for even considering opening up a hunting season for the magnificent sandhill cranes.

Alberta’s government recently announced it’s going to crack down on the illegal sale of tobacco on Indian reserves and other locations where cigarettes are sold without charging the required taxes.

Catchphrases from the past often serve as useful substitutes for wisdom. In my case, as I think about these uncertain economic times, the phrase that has been bouncing around in my head is the 1968 Rolling Stones classic, “You can’t always get what you want.”

With Conservative polling numbers pointing in the wrong direction, could Stephen Harper take a walk in the snow before the next election?

For reasons unknown in the rational universe, Alberta tops North America (and probably the world) for sales of off-road vehicles. Alberta is also right up there in reports of deaths from the use of quads, ATVs and snowmobiles.

A new study suggests it pays to go to school.The Statistics Canada survey found that more than 80 per cent of college and university students who graduated in 2005 and did not pursue further studies had found full-time employment by 2007, while earnings generally increased by level of study.