Stories Collection

  1. With Canadian courts having decided over the past decade that homosexuals have equal ...
  2. Originally established in 1970 as a small steel detailing company, Dowco Consultants ...
  3. A spending spree by the Defence Department at the end of the last fiscal year did not...
  4. In mid-January, RCMP officers in Richmond, B.C., discovered the body of an Asian man ...
  5. Hamed Nasto, 14, of Surrey, B.C., jumped off a bridge last year after being teased me...
  6. How many administrators and coordinators does it take to supervise lunch at a Calgary...
  7. Lethbridge, AB, based Triple M Housing Ltd. builds houses from the inside out. That's...
  8. Consider the following political platform: 1) Outlaw abortion and end official recogn...
  9. The gist of Sylvia Ann Hewlett's celebrated new book, Creating a Life: Professional W...
  10. In 1989, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child bestowed upon children rights t...
  11. There appeared recently in a Toronto newspaper a curious combination of stories, one ...
  12. Minimum-security prisoners can often be seen on work patrol, at the side of the highw...
  13. The path of an amateur author is strewn with thorns. Disdained by publishers, he gene...
  14. We are all, at least on average, just getting fatter and fatter. In fact, you could s...
  15. David Pfimmer hesitates to cite a specific verse, but he is certain a scriptural mand...
  16. Human-cloning enthusiasts are hailing Chinese scientists who claim to have made a gre...
  17. Pierre Elliot Trudeau had an uncanny ability to get under his opponents' skins. And h...
  18. Warren Beazely, a general contractor from Okotoks, Alta., figures that most entrepren...
  19. Freedom of the press, it is sometimes observed, means the freedom to buy a press. The...
  20. One of the main characters in Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent is "the incorrup...
  21. Towards the end of 1999 the Canadian government sent Africa expert John Harker to sou...
  22. One little-acknowledged highlight of last month's census data was the quinquennial li...
  23. Marilyn Macmillan, 55, has no memory of her car sliding and flipping several times on...
  24. In December 1986, police found Eleanor Sonja Jacobsen, 48, strangled to death and cov...
  25. * DIED: Ronald E. (Ron) Stephens, 78, former professor of music at the University of ...
  26. We don't get the Globe and Mail in my northern Alberta community. We wrap our jackfis...
  27. * The U.S. may soon fight several nuclear wars. President Bush confirmed March 13 tha...
  28. Together with the B.C. government, Ottawa has spent more than $1 billion on salmonid-...
  29. About once a year, the UK press has a field day at the expense of the Queen's husband...
  30. Mention the German community of Oberammergau, and the first thing many people think o...
  31. Enneagrams: are they diabolic? Yes, responds at least one unofficial Catholic Web sit...
  32. Visit the on-line form at French Surgery.com, inquire about the surgical operation of...
  33. Suppose for a moment that you are a welder, age 56. You undergo a laser operation to ...
  34. * Nevertheless, it is true that before Churchill came to power in 1940, his reputatio...
  35. Public perception and scientific fact about the state of the environment are often st...
  36. The politician facing the most horrendous task in Canada today is named Gordon Campbe...
  37. Many Canadians have long recognized that Native land claims involve the possibility o...
  38. Charles D. Denney, 101, founder of the Alberta Genealogical Society; of heart failure...
  39. The 2001 Canadian census published last month portrays a nation gently drifting into ...
  40. So frequently have we based these columns on articles in Toronto's Globe and Mail tha...
  41. One hundred years is not a long time, when you think about it. It's four generations....
  42. According to a July 2000 Statistics Canada report, spousal abuse in this country is o...
  43. Pornography is one of those unusual issues that can sometimes unite the feminist left...
  44. * Not even the fall of European Communism can compare in its destabilizing effects to...
  45. Meet Scarlet. The brown-eyed and dark-haired beauty is only a year old now, but a psy...
  46. The average Canadian woman now bears 1.5 live children, Statistics Canada calculates ...
  47. Hundreds showed up to taunt Alberta's Conservatives at their annual convention at Edm...
  48. At a time when tough federal gun-control laws are supposed to have taken firearms out...
  49. HISTORICAL LIBEL The National Post reported March 8 that the Missionary Oblates of ...
  50. A wild animal is never so dangerous as when injured and cornered. So it is that some ...
  51. A familiar host of critics panned this year's fifth annual release of the Fraser Inst...
  52. A Canadian of any sophistication understands that he cannot afford to undertake a ser...
  53. If there's anything Stephen Harper doesn't need right now, it's further advice on wha...
  54. Sushi and sashimi took about 80 years longer than Chinese food to conquer the Canadia...
  55. After lecturing on English literature at the University of Alberta and reporting for ...
  56. Glen Matcyk has seen a lot of wrecks. In the towing business for 10 years, he has ple...
  57. Within five years, seven commercial airlines have crashed in this country. Those wrec...
  58. Ontario Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, a candidate to succeed Premier Mike Harris, wa...
  59. * One big reason the Chinese have succeeded at human cloning is that the technology i...
  60. It must have come as a shock to the central planners in Ottawa when Leger Marketing r...
  61. In the black-and-white world of the CBC and the central Canadian opinion elite, premi...
  62. Ostriches are tough. An adult bird stands nine feet tall, may weigh 330 pounds, runs ...
  63. Contrary to the impression Torontonians leave throughout the rest of the country, the...
  64. The great debate over whether anything besides Darwin's theory of natural selection s...
  65. Colin Reid examines a photo of himself with Pat Black, then Alberta's minister of ene...
  66. * "The war on terrorism is suddenly going terribly wrong." So says War Party leader G...
  67. The 10 treaties between Canada and the Indians of the old Northwest Territories still...
  68. * In January, the seemingly eternal Herb Gray, winner of 13 straight federal election...
  69. Stem cells are "undifferentiated cells from which specialized cells develop." What th...
  70. You know you're in a touchy business when public-relations duties include assuring th...
  71. Joe Queenan is one of America's better and funnier essayists. Meaner too. Novelist Ja...
  72. * Re: "R. vs. Mould." Your March 4 yarn claiming that mould is destroying Alberta's l...
  73. Much to the relief of all sides, the Canadian Alliance leadership contest is over. St...
  74. * You have probably seen the infomercials for the George Foreman Grill, which is, as ...
  75. Saskatchewan MP Garry Breitkreuz, Canadian Alliance gun-control critic, released, on ...
  76. Following Statistics Canada's March 12 release of its 2001 census figures, most comme...
  77. Trust in Canada's healthcare system seems to erode faster all the time. As in Februar...
  78. William Wallace isn't part of the "join the U.S." crowd; his avowed goal is a soverei...
  79. Allan and Betty Ann Burnett of Delta, B.C., appear to have a model family. The parent...
  80. Up Front was taken aback upon seeing the March 6 Calgary Herald, in which reporter Sc...
  81. My ancestry counts for very little in Canadian society. This is because my forebears ...
  82. Stephen Harper was right, and all the Nervous Nellies--including this reporter-were w...
  83. * Not everyone is thrilled with the idea of mandatory g/l/b/t lessons for children in...
  84. * A cover story in the March 26 Medical Post declares an urgent crisis in the Canadia...
  85. * Re: "I am a Jew and my father was a Jew," (March 18). Bob Friedland states that an ...
  86. In the fall of 1989, a group of B.C. Indians paddled a traditional war canoe, the Loo...
  87. Many accounts of courage and inspiration have emerged from New York City in the last ...
  88. It has been nearly 50 years since the technique of freezing and thawing human sperm w...
  89. Into every life a little rain must fall, some sunshine break, so I received with grat...
  90. While standards regarding obscenity, vulgarity and good taste have plummeted over the...
  91. The short lives of Angel Kerrigan-Kinahan and her twin sister Shaniece were the stuff...
  92. PUBLIC CRITICISM IS A CHARTER RIGHT * Roger Guignard will not have to take down th...
  93. Baby boomers will create much the same demographic bulge while exiting Canada's popul...
  94. * During the Cuban Missile Crisis, British journalists were furious that Prime Minist...
  95. Dr. Steven Bratman sighs when asked to be interviewed about his book Health Food Junk...
  96. Trucker Ken Dreger of High River, 30 miles south of Calgary, was stunned when, in Jul...
  97. John Hudak, 49, a 21-year veteran Alberta RCMP officer, suspects his life will never ...
  98. Nobody at Ford Canada or its ad agency, Young and Rubicam, anticipated a complaint ab...
  99. Modern democracy grew from Christian principles, the reason why no democratic state t...
  100. Olive Wade, 102, a lifelong homemaker; of heart failure, in Edmonton. Born in Stansbu...
  101. Two police officers enter a temporary media tent in a parking lot next to a suburban ...
  102. Look in the fish section of your local supermarket and the chances are, whether you a...
  103. Note well the case of Dr. Stephen Dawson, a family physician in Barrie, Ont. Not only...
  104. Catholics could be forgiven or feeling themselves under an unusually heavy Lenten bur...
  105. Ask any three churchgoers which version of the Christian Bible they have, and chances...
  106. This month, Statistics Canada announced that the number of people working on farms dr...
  107. ABB VETCO GRAY CANADA HAS HIGH STANDARDS How does a company come to be considered ...
  108. Most of the 11,000 people who live in Erin, Ont., work in Toronto, 50 miles southeast...
  109. Thanks at least in part to the late country singer Johnny Horton, the broad outlines ...
  110. Mr. Bill's Market in Langley, B.C., had all the appearances of a typical suburban gas...
  111. Jean Chretien calls it "the usual operation." Quebeckers are blackmailed that if they...
  112. Archbishop Adam Exner of Vancouver announced last month that he and about 45 attorney...
  113. A rich but confusing variety of residential roofing materials has erupted onto the ma...
  114. AGRICULTURE AND FOOD * Farmers are trusted by 93% of the population, according to ...
  115. Re: "Strange Alliances," (Feb. 4). Lloyd Mackey, Christian News Ottawa editor and Pre...
  116. Canadians, says a recent study, are working too hard--too hard for their health, too ...
  117. It was a great honour for me to have been elected leader of the Canadian Alliance ove...
  118. They are coming after the national anthem--again. And what better time than right aft...
  119. Saskatchewan farmers and the Saskatoon Wildlife Federation (SWF) in February declared...
  120. Rare is the day when the world does not hear of some new breakthrough in reproductive...
  121. It takes more than a good idea to make a business successful. Without the proper syst...
  122. Two years ago, Stockwell Day was assaulted as "bigoted," as he sheltered behind his "...
  123. Second World War allusions have become endemic since September 11, but George W. Bush...
  124. Julie Posey, a Colorado private investigator, runs Pedowatch, which investigates Inte...
  125. When Daniel Igali was growing up in the village of Eniwari in southeast Nigeria, he h...
  126. Half a century ago, not long before Canadian soldiers fought a war on the Korean peni...
  127. one rather peaceable century and one extremely brutal one, Switzerland has remained f...
  128. Stu Webb was an old-fashioned family lawyer for almost 20 years, from 1971 to 1990. T...
  129. In a February 9 interview with Edward Greenspon of the Globe and Mail, deputy prime m...
  130. Not everyone follows the National Football League all year, but almost everybody watc...
  131. Some things are worth celebrating... like a great idea... or a great company that has...
  132. After a massive raid by a combined force of police, scientists and computer experts, ...
  133. Back in the '70s, when Barry Mayson was president of an east coast U.S.A. Hells Angel...
  134. A B.C. doctor's new treatment for breast cancer is being promoted in a Web site that ...
  135. As American military transports carrying Canadian Forces bound for Afghanistan lifted...
  136. Geodyne Energy Inc., a Calgary-based oil and gas exploration/production firm is strat...
  137. It was getting good and sick, then good and mad, that led Orangeville, Ont., science ...
  138. The Honourable (and this is one of those comparatively rare occasions when that encom...
  139. Many conservatives, especially Christian conservatives, imagine that history will one...
  140. Ann Hansen, 49, suffers from bad timing In 1982, the 500 pounds of dynamite she helpe...
  141. Ontario's Retail Sales Tax Act of 1961 is so complex that even tax lawyers hate it. "...
  142. The September 11 terrorist attacks forced Canadian law-enforcement agencies to improv...
  143. Prior to September 11, no one envisaged what shape a war on terrorism would assume. N...
  144. It was a rare sunglasses-bright late-February morning, but the plaza outside the Port...
  145. Jack Maurice has spent most of the last 22 years in federal prison. He is currently i...
  146. * If sex is an industry the government ought to regulate, why shouldn't big businesse...
  147. High-profile Toronto lawyer Edward Greenspan has appeared in many courts during his p...
  148. Sherry "Smith" of Sandy Bay Reserve, 100 miles northwest of Winnipeg, flicks on a tap...
  149. I was shaken to the bone by recent accounts of Toronto being a hub of child porn, rea...
  150. As someone who is sexually attracted to children, John Robin Sharpe has been called a...
  151. After watching the ongoing farce in both our main parties these past two weeks, we mu...
  152. UN CITOYEN DU MONDE The National Post increasingly resembles the quasi-official or...
  153. It was the end of "lunch with a view" on February 15, as 90 men watched the last danc...
  154. Growing grey and weak and being dumped in an old folks' home is probably fairly high ...
  155. RAGIN' AGAINST CAJUNS * New Brunswick provincial court judge Jocelyne MoreauBerube w...
  156. As Ontario prepares to deregulate its electricity sector, its ratepayers might listen...
  157. Property rights don't exist--pity * All picketing is protected by the Charter as fre...
  158. Close to half a million young Catholics, aged 18 to 35, will land in Toronto this sum...
  159. Ever since the notorious tainted-blood scandal in 1986, people who donate blood to Ca...
  160. Last spring, Dick and Diane Coombs loaded their cattle and machinery onto seven highw...
  161. When William Gairdner is asked for his opinion on the future of Canada, he chuckles--...
  162. The final Canadian Alliance leadership candidate in our series of interviews is Calga...
  163. The race for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance party has been paradoxical indee...
  164. Cloning technology has come in from the barnyard. Since Dolly the famous sheep (the f...
  165. It has been more than a month now since the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) rele...
  166. For those who observe it, the pre-Easter season of Lent is well underway. It's a time...
  167. It's easy to sympathize with federal leaders in Canada. No doubt many of them would l...
  168. Re: "Soft steps to assimilation," (Feb. 4). I take issue with Peter Stock's assertion...
  169. Within three months of moving in, Verna Rumak was calling her lovely new home "the fu...
  170. Unique Oilfield Technology Services (UNOTEC), a Calgary-based oilfield services compa...
  171. Newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic featured extensive and frequently seamy cove...
  172. Last year was an eventful one for Canadian homosexual-rights advocates. Two homosexua...
  173. Quality... professionalism... safety... customer-care...employee respect...are just s...
  174. According to Harold Hagel of Saskatoon, his wife, Valorie, 52, has been an alcoholic ...
  175. PLAIN VANILLA Younger readers won't remember, but 2000 was a year of great optimis...
  176. Many environmentalists demand detailed and draconian government regulations to protec...
  177. * WorldNetDaily.com, the U.S. conservative Web site, rolled out its annual list of th...
  178. March promises to be an instructive month. When the mail-in ballots for the leadershi...
  179. PROVERBIAL WISDOM One is tempted to suggest that the best comment on Joe Peschisolid...
  180. In winter, Canadians' fancies turn to thoughts of newer cars. In a number of cities, ...
  181. When Pakistani-born Canadian Shakir Baloch travelled to New York City last summer to ...
  182. When the history of Canadian mining in the 20th century is written, the 1990s will li...
  183. As the nation reels from Don Mazankowski's controversial report on the reform of Albe...
  184. Many "family values" conservatives will have been heartened by last week's court ruli...
  185. Stockwell Day's campaign launch in Montreal on January 7 was not auspicious. Mr. Day,...
  186. In 1995, Ken Fielding retired as a successful electrical contractor in the Lower Main...
  187. * Southam Inc. vice-president Murdoch Davis (right) sprayed verbal machine-gun fire J...
  188. It must have seemed reasonable enough to have the emblem of the Canadian flag on the ...
  189. Against an ever-present backdrop of quality and reliability, Midland, Ont. company en...
  190. Although it describes itself as "Canada's definitive satirical magazine," Frank is ac...
  191. In 1996, the National Association of Chiefs of Police formed a special plan to fight ...
  192. Stephen Clarkson, the University of Toronto political economist best known for giving...
  193. It is generally a bad idea to write speculatively about events that will occur a few ...
  194. Byron Richardson and his son Ryan are the fourth and fifth generations of their famil...
  195. The fourth candidate to be the second leader of the Canadian Alliance is the party's ...
  196. In attempting to make sense of the link between media descriptions of "heroic" school...
  197. Foreign. * The United States faced a foreign relations crisis over its insistence th...
  198. Since retiring from the House of Commons, I have avoided active participation in poli...
  199. For the past decade, B.C.'s human-rights bureaucracy has been the most radical in Can...