Open Range

The “Third Way” to Nowhere

The Supreme Court opened the door to more private health care, so why isn’t Alberta first to cross the threshold?
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Call Him When it’s Over

If proportional representation stops the scourge of elections, Bunner is in
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The Centennial Party’s at My Place

You might wish to start planning your own celebration because our Tory technocrats are organizing a 100th birthday bash to forget >

Good Science, Bad Policy

Ecologist David Schindler may be a brilliant scientist but his prescription for capping Alberta’s population and economy to cope with our water shortages has frightening connotations
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How to Get the Rock off the Dole

Alberta should support Danny Williams’ oil-and-equalization deal – it’s Newfoundland and Labrador’s last chance to escape welfarism
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The North is Hot

On the cusp of a long-awaited resource boom, will Paul Martin make good on his promise to liberate the Arctic from Ottawa?
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The Chinese are Coming, The Chinese are Coming

Why we should be circumspect about the ocean of communist capital that is poised to pour into our resource sector >

Vote for King Ralph and He’ll Abdicate

It’s a peculiar promise to anchor an election campaign on, but in fin de siècle Alberta, it will probably work

by Paul Bunner

A successful Edmonton businessman was holding court on the patio of one of his finest assets on a precious sunny afternoon near the end of a middling Alberta summer. “I love Ralph,” he gushed. >

What Would Lougheed Do?

Man it feels like 1980 again. The world oil price hit a record high this summer, just as it did that year. Islamic terrorists in Iraq are using westerners as bargaining chips, just as they did in Iran 25 years ago. The Alberta treasury is overflowing and the provincial government is once again the highest per capita spender in the country.
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