“The Creation of Adam, painted by the brilliant Italian Renaissance artist, Michelangelo Buonarroti, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, has long been recognized as one of the world’s great art treasures. What millions overlooked for centuries, was that Michelangelo had painted an anatomically accurate image of the human brain behind God. “The borders…
By Maurice Walch I spend most of my professional time engineering plans for my clients to assist them in achieving their financial objectives so they can maintain their lifestyle in retirement. But what defines a successful retirement? As a planner I get the opportunity to watch hundreds of people retire. While financially they have all…
By Heather Douglas The chickens have finally come home to roost. This notion of bad deeds, specifically curses, returning to haunt their instigator, is a long established literary tradition of the English language, and was first noted in 1390 by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Parson’s Tale. The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has finally put teeth…
By Igor Yusufov Igor Yusufov is an electrical engineer with more than 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. He was deputy chair of the Russian Federation Economic Security Committee and deputy industry minister, chair of the Russian States Reserves Committee, and later general director of the Russian State Reserves Agency. He led…
By Scott Jeffrey When I was a teenager growing up in Saskatchewan, I never heard the joke. It was only when I moved to Calgary in 1972 that I hear the joke, and many more besides. I didn’t even know there were Saskatchewan jokes until I moved away. I then discovered that people from Saskatchewan…
An Irishman, by the name of O’Malley proposed to his girl on St. Patrick’s Day and gave her a ring with a synthetic diamond. The excited young lass showed it to her father, a jeweler. He took one look at it and saw it wasn’t real. The young lass, on learning it was a fake,…
