December 1
Perhaps you have been watching the news and have heard the rumours. The Government of Canada spiraling into the nether-regions of obscure democratic process and is standing on the brink of something rather historic. And no matter, from whichever side of that particular chasm of political upheaval you throw your tomatoes, the results are [...]

Where were you? I was sitting in a hotel in Canmore listening to a presentation on macro-economics and pulling the stats off the net and onto my Blackberry. I pried myself from the room a few minutes before 9 o’clock, quick enough to flip on the television and see that the results had [...]

Did you watch Stephen Harper on the National tonight? Did you notice he wasn’t wearing a wedding band? Just sayin’… I mean I though he was all over that “sanctity of marriage” thing. Is he on the prowl now?

We love you guys. You’re our neighbors and our friends. Occasionally we like to come on down and pay ya’ll a visit. We enjoy that, and we’d like to keep it that way. And we hope you feel the same. We read your news. We watch your television. We [...]

The result of sending a letter with your concerns about copyright to your member of parliament and various other influential ministers in federal government is NOT that they listen to your concerns, but rather that they put you on their mailing list and send you propaganda and notifications of exactly how they are ignoring your [...]

It’s your buddy Brad, here. Remember me? You came knocking on my door earlier this evening and caught me (slightly) off guard. Truth be told I really never expected to hear from you, well, apart from that generic pre-recorded phone message last week and the little hanger with your photo for my front [...]

Every day I get up early in the morning and drive to work amongst the hoards of trucks migrating to the oil-fueled town where my non-oil-related job is located.
Every day I watch out my window as heavy equipment destined for some none-too-distant rig is shuttled around or between various industrial production yards.
Every day I sit [...]

About five years ago when we were living in the urban sprawl of Vancouver our apartment was burglarized. We were suddenly very alone and vulnerable. It wasn’t the stuff, so much. It was rotten-to-the-core feeling of being helpless and insignificant. It was the sleepless nights. It was waking up at [...]

I know, I know. It hasn’t made the news in at least a month. But I cringe every time — EVERY TIME — I hear another one of those stories about people in an outrage about those magnetic “support the troops” ribbons from Walmart (or wherever the heck you buy them) on city [...]

It’s election day in Alberta. And not a particularly exciting election day, either. It’s municipal election day where you run off to pick — no, not the guys who decide health care issues, foreign affairs, or where research dollars are spent — the guys who determine where buses should run, how fast and [...]

Herr George would likely be the first to argue with the basic premise of this book.
Slashdot (as is becoming more and more rare, unfortunately — but that’s another post entirely) had an interesting review article posted regarding a controversial new work of non-fiction soon to be released detailing a theory that contradicts what many historians [...]

I don’t know how many of you have been following the latest escapade down in the States. I have trouble understanding how anyone with any scrap of moral fiber could turn a blind eye towards (let alone defend, as I’ve seen on numerous forums) “King George’s” latest trouncing of the laws of his own [...]