To a compassionate Colleen Myrol, for bravely stepping into the public’s eye this week to share her grief, and promote the need for a central network that offers help for those coming to grips with the loss of a loved one.
If society were to adopt the perverse goal of turning young people into violent thugs with an affinity for antisocial behaviour in general, then we might try to lock up as many of them as possible with hardened criminals, for as long as possible.
Christmas season is upon us and people all over Canada are sending Santa their wish lists. We in The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released our wish list recently.
There were protests against Canada in Copenhagen, the Greenpeace assault on Parliament Hill, the killing of an environmental protester over a Canadian-operated mine in Mexico, and the release of a report claiming tarsands mining is akin to having a major oil spill every year. That’s just this week.
To hear the climate-change alarmists tell it, the U.N. meeting on greenhouse gases in Copenhagen may be mankind’s last best chance.
Stephen Boissoin’s views on homosexuality are ignorant and offensive, but they should never have been censored, nor brought before the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
Every once in a while a mea culpa is in order.
Years back, I used to get a lot of flack from my late grandfather for my routine criticisms of our MP and, later, lieutenant-governor, the late Gordon Towers.
As of Monday, the media had linked seven women romantically or sexually to Tiger Woods — other than his wife.
When the ruts on Red Deer streets start to resemble the Rocky Mountains and the road surfaces start to meet Olympic bobsledding standards, city crews find themselves having to take it on the chin.
To Ducks Unlimited, which recently announced a major focus on conserving and enhancing wetlands in the Pine Lake area.
When you’re in a good news/bad news situation, always take the good news first. It’s like eating the icing on the cake first, but at least you get to enjoy the full experience of the good part, without it being tainted by the bad part. Plus, not all cake without icing is truly bad, anyway.
The debate about the need for a tougher curfew in Red Deer is really a discussion about quality parenting, programs for youth and responsive policing.
Believe it or not, a City of Winnipeg committee is proposing the creation of a separate school division exclusively for native children.
Notwithstanding the editors of the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine who expect Michael Ignatieff to become prime minister next year, the Liberal leader is more likely to spend 2010 in opposition.
One of the hallmarks of political conversation in Canada is its rancor. If you’ve ever tried to talk about alternatives to the way our province or country are being run, most often you’ll either get caught in a gripe session with people who agree with you or a fight with people who don’t.
It was 1994 and I was a new arrival in Israel. I was at the Canadian Embassy working on a media liaison project for Premier Klein’s Alberta trade mission — but something even more exciting was afoot.
People who subscribe to TSN were able to watch Sunday’s Grey Cup game on TV, but Canadians who don’t were pretty much shut out of the action.
Tell it first, tell it yourself and tell it all. That is the tried and true formula for handling a messy public relations crisis in the smoothest possible way.
It’s been a long march into twilight. A country that gave the world Lester Pearson’s peacekeeping and Brian Mulroney’s stand against apartheid is now struggling with Stephen Harper’s apparent blindness to compelling evidence of Afghanistan prisoner abuse.
To the Red Deer city council and a number of compassionate groups that have taken the tiger by the tail in helping the homeless.
