Federal Liberals stream into Vancouver next week for the coronation of their 12th leader, Toronto MP Michael Ignatieff, and they arrive with both hope and soap. The hope comes because Ignatieff, the acting leader since a caucus decision in December, has given the party a boost, seems focused on rebuilding and has engineered a comeback […] Read more
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Liberals have uphill climb to win back rural Canada – Opinion
Environmental trends misguided – Opinion
Seymour is a director and senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This comment originally appeared on the centre’s website at www. fcpp.org. Three movements that have made the news lately – the stop-selling-bottled-water movement, the switch-the-lights-off-for-an-hour movement and the choose-locally-produced-food movement – reveal several misguided trends in modern environmentalism. The trends […] Read more
A pie from the sky marketing idea – Editorial Notebook
People in many prairie towns and cities who want to get airline connections in major eastern or American transportation hubs have to board their flights very early in the morning. It’s so early that they often don’t have time for breakfast, and they aren’t served anything resembling breakfast once aboard. Surely the fatigue and hunger […] Read more
Newspapers change, but stories still told – The Moral Economy
GENERAL interest daily newspapers are making news these days, often by going out of business. In the United States, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has stopped printing after almost 150 years. Denver’s Rocky Mountain News is gone. Smaller, local or regional papers face challenges. This makes me sad. Having been a broadcaster and writer for about 30 […] Read more
Letters to the editor
Bill problems; Wild boars; Funding farm; Obama worry; More on toilets; Ice age; Treating symptoms Bill problems I would like to express my anger and distress over the Alberta Association of MDs and Counties’ decision to endorse the proposed Land Assembly Project Areas Act, known as Bill 19 (WP, April 2.) It is clear to […] Read more
What to know when buying U.S. property – Taking care of business
Are you a Canadian who owns or is thinking about owning U.S. property? Have you thought about buying that sunny vacation home you have always dreamed about or a piece of rental property? Sagging U.S. real estate prices have recently provided more opportunities for Canadians to make those dreams a reality. Invitingly low prices may […] Read more
April 20, 2009
We’ve only got about 10 days left in Zambia. So little time, so much to do… Robert feels the building project at Heart of Africa Mission is at the stage where he can comfortably leave the rest up to the workers there. The buildings will house the teacher training college they wish to begin in […] Read more
Beaten, but down for long?
I remember in Grade 2 getting myself into a scrap with an older kid named Joey. We were in a sandpit at school, arguing over something I can’t quite recall. Anyhow, I hadn’t yet learned the lesson of not getting into arguments with those Grade 3 giants. It came to blows, and while I was […] Read more
Pirates and the high seas of trade
I feel blessed that I live in an age when stories of pirates are in the newspapers, not just in the history books. I had thought until recently that the age of pirates was far behind us, along with the commonplace use of snuff, the yearning for beaver felt hats and the fear of Jacobites […] Read more
Business principles
Mama Phiri paid back her fritter loan, and Vivienne wants to come by tonight to repay her fertilizer loan. The women are definitely the most reliable! Neither woman had to be reminded to make her payments. In fact Mama Phiri has repaid before her due date. Yes, bet on the women! Facilitating knowledge and information […] Read more
