Walk the line
Business journalists have to walk a very fine line. While they can’t be cheerleading shills for a given company or …
Category Archives: Ephemera
The Tempest
Leave it to a national theatre critic to empty his tin of gasoline onto Edmonton’s smouldering cultural fire. In Saturday’s …
Much ado about something
Generally speaking, a manufactured conflict that plays out on a blog is about as interesting to me as the bowel …
Rafe relief
From his time as a Social Credit MLA to his years as a radio host on CKNW to his more …
Pot, kettle
When it comes to the enrichment of the political discourse in this country, there are few organizations that do better …
Spin city
Even in their wildest dreams, it’s unlikely that the architects of Rethink Alberta’s recent attack on the oil sands imagined …
Lost at sea
Editorial boards, in theory, are supposed to be the reasoned voices of accumulated wisdom, the steady hand that keeps the …
Stupid is as Stephen does
If one can judge a man by the company he keeps, as the great Athenian tragedian Euripides once wrote, then …
The authenticity gap
He still doesn’t get it. Over a year after he was confirmed as the leader of the Liberal Party of …
Dumb and dumber
American legislator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously argued that while people may be entitled to their own opinions they are …
