Alberta budget 2013: Good or bad? How will it impact you? On January 25 Alberta Premier Alison Redford gave a televised eight minute speech warning Albertans we were going through some tough times. Amid soaring deficits and the bitumen bubble, Redford warned of serious spending cuts and tax hikes in the upcoming budget. Since that [...]
Last week, there was an accident involving a 56 year old pedestrian in Sandstone Valley being struck not by one, but by two vehicles. Several other cars passed by, and one lady stayed with her. This letter is for those drivers who passed right by her. On February 20 in the early morning, Wong Shuk Yee [...]
Alberta legislature in uproar over entitlement issues By Kevin Olenick No matter what side you are on, you must admit the issues surrounding Alison Redford and Ron Ford this week are questionable and many of them concern politicians’ sense of entitlement. These issues are not the first, nor will they be the last. [...]
September 17, 2012 By Matt Palmer I have been busy the last few weeks with a number of things, and sadly that has kept me from writing here. Later this week I am heading off to New York for some meetings on my project, and then on October 5th I am off to Cannes for [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer Ken Burns It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer Ken Burns It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made [...]
September 7, 2012 By Matt Palmer [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H37yNkrw3_4] It’s been a while since I have watched a Ken Burns documentary, but he is a brilliant storyteller. I remember first hearing about his seminal series on the American Civil War in 1990, and I thought it was going to be a dry and boring piece. Yet, he made that [...]
August 31, 2012 By Matt Palmer [Urban Bees] I have a love/hate relationship with insects. Generally, I love to hate them. Unfortunately, my sons love insects, and my oldest is a great grasshopper hunter. We have a number of plastic containers filled with the green jumpers sitting on our front steps, collected on a walk [...]
