Tale of red ink
My bubble always bursts when it comes to investments
Five years ago a quite enterprising lady urged me to go into the real estate business...
Scary scenario
Red Tories lend off-colour tint to true-blue Conservative ideals
Conservative leader Stephen Harper’s merging of the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservatives was hailed as...
Accomplished PM
Brian Mulroney’s many successes cast shadow over recent leaders
A very charming Brian Mulroney once invited me to his private club in Montreal in...
Frontrunners emerge from pack
Conservative leadership race may be over for all but Oberg and Dinning
Albertans surely owe Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Lyle Oberg one big round of...
Hole in one
Whopping donations prove Calgary likes to share wealth
Calgarian Max Reboh is a fascinating fellow by any measure, as he tells how he can trace...
Separatist reality
PQ resurgence bad for Liberals but could be good for Canada
Let’s all take great relish in the perspiring and perplexed images of Prime...
Warrior legacy
PHOENIX—On wings high above the Arizona landscape, I’m reading my latest mailing from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars and pondering what would...
Foreign objective
Bush doing extremely well at home—and overseas
SAN DIEGO—President Bill Clinton was so focused on the economy and other domestic issues he never paid much...
Wake-up call
Separatist scholar makes case for Alberta split from Canada
Our grandparents would not recognize the frayed and fractured country that was once admired across...
Harper delivers
Liberals are in the hole and Canada is on a roll
Six months ago today every Canadian with even an ounce of patriotism in their...
Borderline idiocy
If you ask this columnist Yankee Doodle is dandy
DALLAS—I tell American friends the kind of Canadians to whom I relate are those who fly...
Israel holds fast
Palestinians used as pawns by sheikdoms and terrorists
The night before I was to fly to Israel in 1998 to help celebrate the 50th anniversary...
Holocaust heroes
Sidney and Bronia Cyngiser urge new generation to always speak out
I’ve never been able to watch Holocaust movies, from Sophie’s Choice to Schindler’s List...
Nothing left
Liberal elite denigrates all Middle America holds dear
DALLAS—I’m chatting with two of my fine Republican friends—actually, the adjective is a redundancy since all Republicans...
Stacked House
Unelected senators should quit Senate after Harper’s makeover
Ontario Premier Dalton Mc-Guinty is dead-set against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plans to put some teeth into...