The Speaker of the House, Ken Kowalski, scolded Alberta MLAs (member of the legislative assembly) for using their BlackBerrys too much and not paying attention. “C’mon now,” said Kowalski. “We agreed on certain things, certain decorum, and I even noted prior to this time toda...

Print an article about Alberta and sure enough, the Alberta envy shows up. I am glad that Saskatchewan is doing better, I would love to see Ontario get back in the game as well as all other provinces, but a little bit of appreciation for Alberta would be welcomed. Alberta no longer holds economic br...

concert review: The Airborne Toxic Event, Alberta Cross, The Henry Clay People @ The Mod Club (Toronto, Ontario) - March 4, 2009 The Airborne Toxic Event @ The Mod Club (Mar 4, 2009): photo by Michael Ligon Oh Los Angeles. I'd been through Los Angeles as I'd arrived and departed from there back in 2...

Before and after: the Alberta tar sands in the March 2009 issue of National Geographic (Photo: Peter Essick) Some are calling it a “smear job�, while others are applauding the National Geographic’s rather sobering 20-page publication on the Alberta tar sands, titled “Scraping Bottom.� Eith...

Filed under: Activism, Blogs, North America, United States, Airlines, News Three Phoenix-based flight attendants are in the unusual position of defending themselves from pilot-instigated litigation. Of course, they deserve it. I mean, what would you do when people responsible for passenger safety re...

Keeping with the theme of the week, it is Thursday February 19th. President Barack Obama has visited Canada and the comments about the visit have all been very positive for Canada and its people. I just watched the press conference on Parliament Hill and was very impressed with what I heard. Today I...

Things aren't looking too good for new Alberta Liberal leader David Swann. On the one hand a group of disgruntled Liberals is working hard on creating a new party, while on the other, one of his own MLAs is now considering (and supposedly already negotiating her) crossing the floor to sit with the g...

Image via CrunchBase I received my Tabbloid Today tabbloid_2009-02-05_0900-edelman-digital-zemanta Tabbloid is a free service from Hewlett Packard and is a client of Edelman !  There a lot of great articles and I found One on Zemanta and The Last Newspaper by  by Gary Goldhammer “Dan...

There are a few contenders for the World’s Largest Cowboy Boots. The best claim perhaps belongs to this pair, which stands 12m tall, outside the North Star Mall in San Antonio, Texas. Tall as they are, they’re barely visible from above, but thankfully the Street View car drove right by. ...

Here is our update on the Edmonton real estate market. (Previous week's numbers are in brackets). For the past 7 days: New listings: 446 (390, 380, 94)# Sales: 145 (111, 82, 37)Ratio: 33% (28%, 22%, 39%)# Price changes: 274 (242, 156, 94)# Expired Listings: 197 (215, 171,851)# Canceled/withdrawn/ter...