Click here to read my Metro column about a dangerous habit that seems to be taking over Calgary.  It’s rare for a city to tear down the old, to replace with the new, I find especially in Canada.  Yet, every month, more and more beautifully old buildings seem to be coming down and more and [...]

Charter of Rights applies, says judge

Heard that the current Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler, will be in Calgary at the start of the Stampede! The 100th anniversary is going to be bringing all sorts of people to our city, so this shouldn’t be surprising, but I am not exactly sure what she is…

The new Cabinet appointed today by Premier Redford is both a continuation of the status quo, but also contains a few hints about what to expect. If you view this as change, you need to get out more.

The 17 member cabinet has 7 associate ministers. Salary and size of cabinet are red herrings. The real issue is whether they can function well.  Previous cabinets were plagued by turf wars, empire

Look at this photo. What do  you see? I see the moon, some clouds, a tree, and an over-exposed light post in the foreground. The Calgary Herald wants to know if you’re as pareidolia-susceptible as their reader L. Wolanski and see Jesus in the c…

Last month, you may have heard that a few thousand people had trouble getting Garth Brooks tickets?  Well three lucky people in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver are about to get their hands on the most coveted tickets in all the country and I’ll they have to do is find one lucky white hat. This Wednesday, [...]

The last pre-election message on Ted Morton’s website: To our Supporters: Thank you for supporting me and the PC Party—a party that has madeAlbertathe best place to work, to live and to raise a family. As your MLA for Chestermere-Rocky View, I …

The last pre-election message on Ted Morton’s website:

To our Supporters:

Thank you for supporting me and the PC Party—a party that has madeAlbertathe best place to work, to live and to raise a family. As your MLA for Chestermere-Rocky View, I will work for you to keep it that way.

I wasn’t really sure if that was a premature victory speech or an awkwardly worded appeal to get out the vote

Like, seriously. Hot.   The 34th annual Calgary Folk Music Festival announced their up this year and it would appear that there is something for everyone…unless you like Sinead O’Connor, who was to be a headliner, but canceled her entire tour two days ago. No replacement for her has been announced…yet, so stay tuned! As [...]

In case you forgot…the principal cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation will be at the Calgary Comic Expo this weekend. I am sure Stewie would be jealous.XOXOJes…

Mining companies are only part of Canada's corporate presence in Latin America

LOS CABOS, MEXICO—The hard fought battle against the Keystone XL p…

Donna Kennedy-Glans, election flyer 2012

This was in my mailbox on Friday. Donna Kennedy-Glans is running as the PC candidate in my riding of Calgary Varsity. It’s quite impressive, the production values are great.  It looks like it cost a lot. Not surprising from a governing party that spares no penny on self-promotion.  Interesting, no mention of the PC Party until the very bottom of the

Donna Kennedy-Glans, election flyer 2012 This was in my mailbox on Friday. Donna Kennedy-Glans is running as the PC candidate in my riding of Calgary Varsity. It’s quite impressive, the production values are great.  It looks like it cost a lo…

Warren Kinsella says here and here that Progressives should vote for Alison Redford’s Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta’s Provincial election. It is a formulaic and emotional appeal to strategic voting. It presents no argument that such a vote would accomplish anything useful.  The strategic voting argument is always stated as an urgent imperative, and is insulting to our intelligence. (

The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition, the most prestigious name in short film script contests, has earned one more honour: The CSSC’s 2008 1st place winning script ‘Seeing In The Dark’ director of photography Colin Hubick has won the Best Cinematography Category for Foreign Film at the Sunset Film Festival Los Angeles. Continue reading →

A question that burned through my mind on Tuesday during the Calgary-Klein forum was “How did this guy ever get elected?” How did this guy get in? Fawcett wasn’t prepared. He fumbled. He didn’t have answers, didn’t have p…

All photos taken by Mike’s Bloggity Blog When I think of a monumental moment in my life, I’m probably supposed to think about things like graduation, babies and wedding days.  Well so far, only one of those has happened and so I become forced to consider other things to make up those moments, which quite [...]

Calgary’s “No Nickleback Guaranteed” radio station, X 92.9, hosted the first ever X Fest last year. I wasn’t thrilled at the line up as I am not much of a ‘rocker’ (well, all except Weezer…they’re legit). So this year I was expecting more of the same…

We all knew that getting our hands on those coveted Garth Brooks tickets would be difficult, that’s why, this weekend, so many people across Canada had set up numerous computers hoping to score tickets to the hottest concert of this year’s Stampede. But many fans were left without a chance to see the show when [...]

In 27 hours and counting, the Kill Jills hit the track at the Olympic Oval for their first regulation bout in Alberta’s largest roller derby tournament, Flat Track Fever. I’m a little nervous, being fairly new at this roller derby thing&#8…