Opinion

A novice pastor was assigned the reopening of a rundown church. It needed lots of work, but along with a few helpers, he planned excitedly to begin services on Christmas Eve.

One cannot help but wonder about the politics surrounding the recent donations to the Progressive Conservative (PC) party annual meeting by the Alberta Milk Producers and Alberta Turkey Producers marketing boards.

Last week saw a lot of controversy on the infamous Bill 50 with stories being published in several dailies about how the government, through bureaucrats, told utility companies in secret meetings “not to question” the need for new power lines.

Copenhagen is turning into exactly the sort of shambles everybody feared it would be. The only official text still has almost two thousand square brackets indicating points of disagreement, although there is less than two weeks to go. And now all the rival, unofficial texts are starting to emerge.

Christmas season is upon us and people all over Canada are sending Santa their wish lists. We in the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released our wish list recently.

Finally some good news, good news for everyone, but particularly for generations yet to come: After decades of foot dragging and oscillating, the government of the United States, officially, unequivocally, in clean print, acknowledged that greenhouse gases are harmful to humans.

It was a close call, but Calgary city council narrowly avoided a rare encounter with common sense.

Remember the book “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” by John Grey? He offered suggestions on how to improve male/female relationships in couples by helping them to understand the different communication styles and emotional needs of each gender.

I recently watched “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”. This 2008 documentary film was directed by Nathan Frankowski and hosted by Ben Stein.

Recently there has been a flurry of annoying arbitrary trade actions by different countries against imported Canadian agricultural commodities.