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Category - On the Other Hand
Taking responsibility
The Trans Mountain pipeline is a good example of how ideologies taken to the extreme are not...
History of symbols matter
Symbols matter and the meaning behind a symbol may be quite different than what you’ve come to...
Taking responsibility
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, enacted 14 years after Alberta’s Heritage Trust Fund was...
Gift that keeps on giving
Tis the season when the police step up their campaign against driving impaired. According to MADD...
Happiness is
Christmas has become a season of confliction. We are to buy gifts for others and self; celebrate...
Bigger than one political party
We’ve all been told by our mothers and the police, ‘If it sounds too good to be true, it likely...
When industry won’t, government must
The cyclical downturn in Alberta’s oil industry is once again plummeting many households into...
The people spoke
All municipalities in Alberta and their ratepayers owe a debt of thanks to Calgarians who soundly...
Forgetting the promise to never forget
Every scene, every battle described from World War I and the 40 million soldiers and civilians...
Unintended consequences of blind ideology
The question is uncomfortable but needs to be considered. Would the Humboldt Broncos’ hockey team...
Back to the basics
Sometimes it takes forever for that pendulum to swing back from the extremes and land in the...
Bus students need our advocacy
Checks and balances on power is one of the imperatives to successful democracies. The Fifth Estate...
Top court validates parliamentary supremacy
A good day for Canada and its Supreme Court was Oct. 10, 2018. Once more they showed Canadians and...
Unheralded heroes
Canadian scientist, Donna Strickland, joins Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) as...
Opinion is not news
Two City of Calgary councillors won’t accept interview requests from the Calgary Herald until they...
Planning for the future that’s already here
We’re about 15 years late on the pipeline construction file. Many mistakes, including arrogance and...
Be informed and prepared
Legal cannabis use in Canada is 29 days away. Its legalization has potential pitfalls for non-users...
Dying is a part of living
The difference of understanding between the newly formed Stettler Hospice Society and Palliative...
Value of history kept, not whitewashed
In Montreal, a 17-metre statue of John A. Macdonald, our first Prime Minister, is regularly...
Lest we forget
As white nationalism and anti-Semitic acts of violence rise worldwide, on a recent European trip, I...
From autocracy to democracy
At the recent International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) in Portland, Oregon July 10...
Canada on the abyss
Canada has not yet reached the low of ethno nationalism seen in most liberal democracies, but that...
Fragile and easily lost
As many established and newer democracies continue to flail under strongman leaders and populism...
It takes little effort to be harsh
We could sit in judgement and curse yet another heartless act by the Republican Party in the United...
Mr. Leach, there is no perfect world
Since the protestors and the British Columbia government aren’t going anywhere soon, why will the...
Governance Not Ideology
Fact—this isn’t the first time government investment has been used to save a major project. In the...
Queue jumping will feed racism
You’re not a racist if you think there are too many people illegally entering Canada from the...
“In schools we call that bullying!”
Jason Kenney, leader of the United Progressive Conservatives (UPC), is a study in contradictions. I...
None is too many
The Middle East is steeped in history, colonialism, hatred, oil and three religions borne out of...