Opinion

Political commentators and ruminators are almost unanimous in their post-mortem dissection of the recent by-election in Calgary, which saw the upset victory of Wildrose Alliance (WRA) candidate Paul Hinman over Progressive Conservative (PC) and Liberal opponents.

We’d just moved and one of the families in our new church made it their habit to pray daily for the recently installed pastoral family. Two of their children felt that it was good to pray, but told their parents that prayer was not enough and that they should also do something to show that their faith was real. The parents asked them what they had in mind.

Maybe it’s the relatively thin air up on those high plateaus that makes them foolish.

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Welcome back, I mean to election politics. Isn’t it nice that we now have an annual event which we might well call “the farce of representative democracy”?

Deciding to do things differently is not easy, and this is especially true with reforming our health care system. But with time and persistence, we will see the positive results of the many significant changes that are underway.

American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

Greyhound bus lines recently announced that they would reduce and terminate bus service to small towns in Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario.