The city of Edmonton continued its arena tease last week, releasing the latest renderings of the new hockey pleasure palace. It took exactly one day before it was declared “world class” by the typically rapturous coverage of the Edmonton Journal. O…

Wheels vs. bricks-and-mortar restaurant? Double cheer for competition.

Atheists tend to be a very skeptical bunch – at least those who participate in online communities, so when an email arrives in my inbox titled “AtheistCensus Mailing List – Action Required” when I never signed up for such a thing, my skeptisens…

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

The PCs carried 61 of 87 seats

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. (

BioWare, an Edmonton-based game development company, is being targeted by anti-gay groups over the option to make your character gay in their latest video game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. “In a new Star Wars game, the biggest threat to the emp…

Elections are made up of a lot of little things—and this one is pretty amusing

The countdown is on… With 11 days remaining until the kick off of Alberta’s largest roller derby tournament, teams from around the province and beyond its borders are getting all fired up for Flat Track Fever!  Fishnets, tattoos, and qui…

The Kitchen Magpie, or Super Mommy (in my humble opinion) spearheaded this fundraising event! When Karlynn asked me to be a judge for her latest initiative: The Culinary Arts Cookoff, I was honoured and delighted. Cooking with kids is my raison d’être – well, one of them! After retiring from Edmonton Public Schools after thirty [...]

Join us at NAIT April 14, for an unforgettable day cooking, tasting, and connecting! Tickets are to be on Sale at 8 am this morning, but there have been some technical issues, so head on over to Eat Alberta to see if they have been solved! Register as soon as you can as there are [...]

Get thee out and downtown this week! Edmonton’s Downtown Business association has decided to focus on Downtown Dining Week as its premier event and after sampling some of the wares that will be offered by the participating restaurants, I can, without hesitation, urge you to make a concerted effort to participate in this incredible opportunity. [...]

CANADIAN LABOUR EDMONTON: SUPPORT NICK DREIGER: Nick Dreiger is a shop steward for the Canadian Union Of Postal Workers (CUPW) in Edmonton Alberta and an organizer for the IWW. He was recently fired because of a number of charges related to either hi…

CANADIAN LABOUR EDMONTON:SUPPORT NICK DREIGER:Nick Dreiger is a shop steward for the Canadian Union Of Postal Workers (CUPW) in Edmonton Alberta and an organizer for the IWW. He was recently fired because of a number of charges related to either his un…

Brittany Watt is The Harvest Chef and has created a brilliant concept at her restaurant and catering company in OSFM. Vanja was golfing in Palm Dessert. Mom and Dad were in Vegas. I was dog sitting my baby sister, Penny. Did I need a night out, or what? Karlynn felt the same, so lucky me! [...]

Business forced me to be in our nation’s capital when Niki Ashton, the latest candidate for the leadership of the New Democratic Party to visit Edmonton, spoke at the City Arts Centre in Old Strathcona Tuesday evening. Since Edmonton’s mainstream media…

There’s a movement—it’s a clever piece of magazine marketing, actually, but we’ll call it…

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David Staples looks at the young Stephen Harper who left home in search of…

Last night I was sent a link to an article in the Winipeg Free Press about Bob Rae calling out Liberal cliques, Liberal navel gazing, and turf wars. The Globe and Mail pipes in as well. I couldn’t agree more. Mr. Rae has signaled that he wants C…