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In 93/94 was still in Lahr. The MWO at the clinic had received a phone call from a medic MWO in Croatia (a mutual friend, we'd been cpls together and he'd been my CSM in the fd amb a couple of years earlier) requesting that we fax him a reference document. He thought that his guys were being...

While looking to see if there were any online photos of 1990 flooding to illustrate my personal tale, I came across this. https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Comfort-flood-claimed-10-lives-thirty-years-ago-11293761.php Flooding is so common in that area that 1990 was considered...

Pancakes and politics. You can't swing a dead cat in Calgary during Stampede without hitting a politician (of any stripe) in a cowboy hat flipping pancakes. The bigger names will have their own events (how else will you raise funds); the lesser politics lights will be attending any church...

I spent some time in that neck of the woods hill country many years ago, though not specifically in Kerrville. I've rafted the Guadalupe River when it had been at height, and had an exciting night when a storm blew through the area while we were under canvas at Camp Bullis (the ex, MUSIO -...

They may be a small subset but unfortunately there are well placed individuals who, even if they are not genuinely separatist, will continue to fan the flames in order advance their own agendas. Those agendas are not necessarily based on getting a better deal for Alberta. That may be a...

FTFY . . . or did more than one British general tell Clark to go f**k himself?

A couple of articles from 2003 (Slate and Al Jazeera) which reference the claim that was made in a book by Clark. At the time Clark was seeking the nomination as Democratic Party presidential candidate (he withdrew from the race and supported Kerry)...

Your lense may be too narrowly focused. While the European countries that you cite as examples may not be "obsessed" with neighbours in your experience of living abroad (apologies if my assumption of you being there is abroad, instead of you being here is abroad), if you go back an extra...

Previously (three months ago), she said she wasn't a lobbyist, but a "salesman". https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/sheila-copps-covid-contracts-lobbyist

Good! One less person pissing in the water. C'mon, admit it, you've done it at least once.

The solemn occasion part of the day has likely passed by now, and the festivities of Dominion Day have probably commenced. However, from my youth I remember the parades from the Sergeants Memorial to the National War Memorial (Nfld variant) but not any specific celebration of confederation on...

What tradition is that? Giving a free ride to an opposition leader who was voted out of his home riding? And the freeloader continued to occupy Stornoway. Would he be considered a squatter? As for "uncontested by-elections" for official opposition party leaders (or more particularly PM) who...

Maybe they were waiting for a by-election to be announced. https://liberal.ca/liberal-party-of-canada-announces-darcy-spady-as-liberal-candidate-for-battle-river-crowfoot/

The early bird catches the worm. The anti-separatists were the first to get their petition approved by Elections Alberta. This was under the old rules (more signatures, shorter time frame - the new rules become effective on Friday) and should delay any petition initiative from the leave Canada...

Perhaps there may be one or two possibles among the 10,000 voters who cast ballots for "progressive" (LPC, NDP & Green) candidates in the general election. My supposition is that expense is the main limiting factor. Even if a candidate doesn't run a campaign (like Longest Ballot acolytes)...

The US may have been negotiating before the election, but once the new administration was in place they weren't "onboard with that". https://www.vatcalc.com/global/digital-services-taxes-dst-global-tracker/

There is. It's called the Emergencies Act. https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/e-4.5/index.html The concept of what constitutes "an emergency" and how the government responds to it has been the subject of much debate.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/canadian-national-ice-custody-passes-away https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting Am not overly impressed with their published reports.

My question was mostly rhetorical. I see the pandering to the base but I become less and less of the opinion that Ms. Smith is only pandering and this will get out of hand.

One of the people appointed to the Alberta Next panel was the recently elected (in Monday's by-election) MLA for Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, Tara Sawyer. On this morning's 'Calgary Eyeopener' (CBC Radio), she was briefly interviewed about the panel as well as her recent election, with a specific...