Friday May 09, 2008
Latest Columns 
It's time we all paid attention to Gordon Campbell
Online Edition: Friday, May 9, 2008 06:36 PM
The Premier is doing what people always claim they want from politicians: leading, on a big file, with bold action
Getting to the heart of the matter
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Online Edition: Friday, May 9, 2008 09:26 AM
Getting to the heart of the matter
Getting to the heart of the matter
Published: Friday, May 9, 2008 12:00 AM Page A23
Sheila Fraser and her colleagues are auditors, but of a particular kind.They're not really like the auditors who check a company's books and report to shareholders whether the money in and out adds up. By statute, the Auditor-General's group must do ''value-for-money'' auditing, a very wide mandate to decide, at least implicitly, if money is being well spent.
Alberta's emissions mission is far from 'accomplished'
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Online Edition: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 07:28 AM
It's a mission far from 'accomplished'
Alberta's emissions mission is far from 'accomplished'
Published: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:00 AM Page A21
The two most parodied words in U.S. political circles, and in the country at large, are ''Mission Accomplished.''They appeared on a banner, you will recall, behind U.S. President George W. Bush when he spoke on an aircraft carrier hailing the victory in Iraq. Ever since, as Iraq descended into violence and chaos, ''Mission Accomplished'' has stood for false bravado, misleading information and even a delusional attitude toward reality.
Hillary tries turning Obama into today's Adlai Stevenson
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Online Edition: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 06:28 AM
She's trying to turn him into today's Adlai Stevenson
Hillary tries turning Obama into today's Adlai Stevenson
Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 12:00 AM Page A17
Hillary Clinton, with a little help from Barack Obama himself, is trying to make the Illinois Senator into an Adlai Stevenson.Mr. Stevenson, also from Illinois, ran twice for president atop the Democratic ticket, in 1952 and 1956, and got thumped by Dwight Eisenhower of the Republicans.
It's time productivity came out of the closet
Published: Saturday, May 3, 2008 12:00 AM Page A21
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde's line about homosexuality, productivity in Canada is a term that dares not speak its name.Newspaper publishers hate it, because the subject is too dull. Television despises it, because the subject is too complicated. Governments flee from it, because the mere mention of the word provokes fear and loathing.
It's time productivity came out of the closet
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Online Edition: Friday, May 2, 2008 07:20 PM
A term that dares not speak its name became a debate that did not happen
Ontario's plight is too important to ignore
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Online Edition: Friday, May 2, 2008 07:18 AM
Province gets little sympathy but rest of Canada should care
