Archive 1997-2016
Last fall, Wiebo Ludwig and Richard Boonstra seemed in danger of being “lynched” by their neighbours in northwestern Alberta.
Public sentiment, as the result of a two-year campaign of violence in the Alberta oil patch, had reached the point where the two men and their families were under constant suspicion.
Canada Post’s advertising campaign extolling the benefits of snail mail has made me realize how e-mail is changing the way we communicate.
E-mail is creeping into every facet of our lives. It has spread from the workplace to homes and now to cell phones and pagers. People are becoming so reliant on e-mail they feel the need to have immediate access. It’s not rare for people I know to check their e-mail five, six, seven times a day and to have received new mail each time.
By Corey Boles
When conservatives of all stripes descend upon Ottawa late in February, they will be engaging in an exercise of futility.
The United Alternative Convention, set to take place Feb. 19-21 at the Congress Centre, faces many obstacles before it even gets going. By far the most imposing of these is the ego of the man at the helm of the Reform Party of Canada.
By Shannon Hagerman
A few years ago, a Quebec woman went to a hospital for some regular lab tests. Imagine her shock when doctors told her she had a terminal illness. Later, she got a very disturbing phone call. It was from a funeral home. It wanted to sell her a deluxe package.