A Soldier Died Today by A. Lawrence Vaincourt (Canadian Poet who died 2009) He was getting old and paunchy And his hair was falling fast And he sat around the legion Telling stories of the past Of a war that he once fought in And the deeds that he had done In his exploits with…
“I would retire from hockey if we won the Stanley Cup. That decision, leading up to the spring of 1989, came as I began to consider what my next career would look like. After we won, I was happy to follow through on that promise to myself. I began to develop all sorts of ideas…
By Jamie Carroll, Originally published IPolitics.ca Oct. 6, 2017 Jamie Carroll ran Stephane Dion’s leadership campaign in 2006 and then served as national director of the Liberal Party of Canada. He is a director of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute. This week (sic), TransCanada announced that it would not be pursuing its planned pipeline…
By Heather Douglas Vladimir Putin proclaimed the meeting was a “landmark event” that will give “a strong impulse to bilateral ties.” King Salman responded he had come “looking to expand relations with friendly nation Russia in the interests of peace, security, and the development of the world economy.” The King and Putin endorsed a plan…
By Darcy Spady I have recently been given the immense privilege of being elected as the 2018 worldwide president of the 165,000-member Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). First time ever for a Canadian, and first time ever for someone from Three Hills! Part of the obligation of leading this organization is participating on a 30-member…
By Heather Douglas Cloaked in their green duplicity, the Government of Quebec, the mayors around Montreal, and the federal Quebec politicians rejoiced when TransCanada (TSX:TRP) cancelled the Energy East Pipeline. Yet in 2014 the province authorized the building and operation of Quebec’s largest carbon dioxide polluter, a cement plant along the Gaspe Peninsula, which potentially…
