Opinion

When one of Canada’s pre-eminent corporate citizens publicly apologizes for the deaths of hundreds of ducks, then months later mulls mounting a constitutional challenge to charges related to those deaths, what are we to think?

To the mystery man who appeared out of nowhere, handed a needy family of wad of cash, then disappeared just as fast.

Sometimes it’s the escape of the first few drops of water that signals the eventual collapse of a dike.

When it comes to getting married, they say surviving the bachelor party is half the battle.

What crosses your mind when a federal minister gets into hot water for misplacing a sensitive government document in one week, and then the next is unknowingly reported to be caught on a recording, commenting on the performance of a fellow minister?

In February 2007, I wrote in this space about how even a modest downturn in new car sales would almost certainly lead to a massive government intervention in the auto industry, and that the resulting mismanagement would inevitably lead to even more financial problems for car makers and taxpayers alike.

The early 1980s were very tough times economically in Central Alberta. New federal energy policies, followed by a sharp decline in world petroleum prices, sent the all-important oil and gas sector into a sudden and deep recession.

Sometimes, even when you win, you can’t win. The Lavesta Group, the landowners and others opposed to the building of a major power line through their property overcame huge hurdles when they quashed an application for a line to be built.

In a just-published book titled Open & Shut: Why America Has Barack Obama and Canada Has Stephen Harper, columnist John Ibbitson of The Globe and Mail has a suggestion for the many Canadians who, like him, dream of a day when the House of Commons will be free of the Bloc Quebecois.

Alberta’s Conservatives have governed this province since 1971.At times, such as when Peter Lougheed headed up the party, they provided pretty good government.