When Premier Ralph Klein wrotea letter to the president of the University of Alberta in 1999 demanding that the Parkland Institute be shut down, he concluded it by stating: “One might ask if [...]

Dawn is breaking January 1, 2020, when I receive a phone call. The paramedic on the other end informs me that my brother, Olivier, has fallen and can’t get up. Administrators of the lodge where [...]

In a 1958 issue of the Rotarian, US historian Burges Johnson wrote that “most of history is a sort of congealed or petrified gossip.” This exciting idea makes me wonder if history has to wait for [...]

I live in a winter city. I was born in Edmonton. I was raised in Edmonton. But here’s the truth. I have always hated winter. I hate the cold. I hate the ice. I hate the wind. I hate the dark. I [...]

Rebecca Graff-McRae, the research manager at the Parkland Institute, says yes. If we are lucky we will grow old. If we are lucky, someone will care for us when we do. We all deserve and need the [...]

In August 2019 the government of Alberta invited me to join the 16-person board of governors at the Banff Centre for an initial three-year term. I had applied through normal channels, was vetted, [...]

On maps of old, cartographers would mark unknown regions with the Latin phrase hic sunt dracones, here be dragons. Those regions were feared, and myths were created both to warn of unknown [...]