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...