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Category - On the Other Hand
What happened to ‘Earn It’!
Intuitively it makes sense to reward employees and management on the basis of performance. But have...
Death of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party
Danielle Smith, former leader of the Wildrose Party, was one of the first political leaders in...
Think California!
Even if we don’t accept the overwhelming evidence that crime rates are lowest in countries that...
Wow! Property Rights restored?
When and how did we, the ordinary working-class citizen, adopt the belief system that government...
Immigrants, refugees not the enemy
There are a lot of people, especially those who subscribe to a radical right-wing ideology, who...
Take much, add little
It was a refreshing week to hear two men, an entertainer and a politician, actually go after the...
Taking back our minds
Words do matter and it was proven on a Sunday evening in January when a radicalized individual...
Pipelines for Canada
The executive order by the American President to approve TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline is so...
Democracy at its very best
I sat down to read an article, “Answers Wanted” by Sarah Pratt in the winter 2016 edition of the...
Someone is always happy to think for you
I meet an inordinate number of Albertans who hate President Obama, hate the Affordable Healthcare...
Gas price fixing bigger issue than Carbon Tax
It’s interesting the cartel of oil companies retailing gas across Canada have fixed and manipulated...
Comparison to Europe misleading
In an era where social media has facilitated overt lies and the ‘real’ media re-broadcast tweets...
As the pendulum swings
It appears that Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Notley have gotten the right balance between...
Carelessness towards the truth
Unfortunately throughout the history of mankind, extreme seasons of hatred are a regular occurrence...
Lest we forget needs to be more than symbolic
Letisha Reimer was just 13 attending a suburban high school in Abbotsford, B.C. when she was...
Three-headed monster
Governments have many different ways to stimulate the economy or push a particular social agenda...
Time to stop denying and just get on with it
Alberta still has many climate change deniers and writing a column in support of the carbon tax is...
When takers triumph, thankfulness wanes
Both Canada and the United States were built on Judeo Christian values. Specifically values of...
God save America
There is not a female in the country that has climbed her way to the top or near the top in...
Free Press doesn’t equal free market
Voting, fair elections, freedom of speech, rule of law, non-politicalized judiciary are all...
Greed and compassion incompatible
On The Other Hand Yet again our universal health care is under attack. Dr. Brian Day owner of the...
Better the elephant we know
For anyone who is a history buff, it’s quite scary watching world leaders fawn over the brutal...
Democracy before Profits
On the Other Hand Canada is a trading nation and desperately needs to trade, but the propensity to...
Winning the old fashioned way, earn it
On The Other Hand The International Olympics Committee needs to take a lesson from the Canadian...
The story of two governing bodies and one report
On the Other Hand The Olympic Games and those athletes that train and compete clean have always...
We all share the same planet
On the other Hand If it wasn’t the “most powerful nation in the world”, or our largest trading...
Simply an addiction
On The Other Hand It was the most heart-warming picture I had witnessed in many years. At an...
Lord of the Right
On the Other Hand One has to wonder if Preston Manning isn’t behind the current scheme to unite the...
The Corporatist
On the Other Hand Oh, how the mighty have fallen. It reminds me of those many uprisings throughout...