The Cadman affair

Prime Minister Stephen Harper took the unprecedented step of suing the Liberal Party of Canada for libel over statements made by the party on its website. After the release of a taped interview with Harper from 2005, Liberals began accusing the Conservative party in general, and Harper in particular, of bribery with respect to Cadman …

New Content at GAS – Arthur C. Clarke: The day the future died

By Lyle Bateman
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
“The golden age of science fiction” is a term used to describe a particularly fertile period in science fiction, when old conventions of “the space western” were challenged with new ideas, new themes, and new energy.
There are many names associated with that period—Heinlein Bradbury and Asimov, among others—but no name is [...]

Doing my part for one party democracy …

Its election time in Alberta again … the King is dead, long live the King. For those completely unfamiliar with Alberta provincial politics, I wrote a primer on the subject here on View from the Edge last year, whose title I stole for my opening line above …

The day the music died … Jeff Healey dead at 41

The Heavenly Roadhouse will be rocking tonight. The choir of Angels will happily slide into a back up role for the premiere performance of Jeff Healey. The Canadian guitar virtuoso died last night in Toronto as a result of complications from the cancer he battled his entire life …

… works in Absurd and Ironic ways …

The more I look at the world, the more I think God must have a supreme sense of the absurd, and an edge of irony sharper than the sharpest razor. As my year end post for 2006, I wrote an entry on the absurdity of some of the major news events of the year, but absurdity and irony pop up in more mundane places as well …

2007 … a year in jokes

Well, we’re coming up on the end of 2007, and all the “year in review” shows are starting to come out now. Its one of the things I love about this time of year, the chance to reflect on the things that have happened in the past year, and think a bit about the future …

Yuletide Greetings

Its a week before Christmas, and as usual for recent times, part of the Holiday season this year is the debate over the use of terms like “Christmas” and other Christian terms for the holiday. Many Christians and “traditionalists” are fighting back against a wave of “political correctness” …

Mounties always get their man

The title words for this post have taken on a stark new meaning in recent times in Canada. I’ve been trying to write about the Robert Dziekanski incident from Vancouver International Airport in October for a week or so now …

Lest We Forget – a repost in honour of Remembrance Day

In 1915, Lt Col John McCrae was a field surgeon working with the Canadian Artillery at the Battle of Ypres in Belgium. His field hospital was located in the region of Belgium colloquially known as Flanders, and during a lull in his work on mangled soldiers, he penned some words that will forever be associated with Canadian War Veterans, and Remembrance in Canada …

Upgrades …

The new version of Wordpress, the software that powers the main version of this blog and many others, was released yesterday, and I took the opportunity today to upgrade to the latest and greatest. If the blog was offline for you for a bit, thats probably the reason, but I must say its a very quick and painless process that involves very little disruption in access …