Opinion

Being a hockey fan at this time of year is a lot like reading headlines about economic turmoil.

About 100 days ago, Canada’s federal Liberals appeared to be making progress.They’d just dumped unpopular party leader Stephane Dion and replaced him with a slightly more charismatic egghead, Michael Ignatieff.

To John Jones, the technical adviser to the ethics committee of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, who quit Thursday over controversial corporate sponsorship of the cops’ annual conference last year.

“We want to be in (the new UN climate pact), we want to be pragmatic, we want to look at the science,” said Jonathan Pershing, the head of the U.S. delegation, during the talks on cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Bonn last week.

A couple of summers ago, we hosted a young Israeli couple. It was hilarious to see these two, straight from their compulsory army service – where they had learned many survival skills to find themselves “lost in the Canadian woods” with no cellphone coverage.

Airline analysts have speculated for months about the possibility of Air Canada filing for bankruptcy protection.

Shocking, isn’t it? The Alberta government — the richest government in all the land — is running a deficit.

The Alberta government set about selling a budget with a multibillion-dollar deficit Wednesday to a crotchety constituency that has grown used to massive oil-fuelled surpluses.

There are enough conflicting messages contained in the Alberta budget to leave the average taxpayer dazed and confused for a week.

Arguing that newspapers are dead makes about as much sense as arguing that rotary dial telephones are dead: It’s pointless.