So Alberta’s provincial surplus for this year is about 7.4 billion dollars. To put this in perspective, 7.4 billion dollars is greater than Saskatchewan’s entire yearly operating budget (at least according to the CBC).
The Governor General’s take on the Canadian Olympic effort … 16 medals by women / 24 total = “three out of four medals were won by women” which was a point of pride for the country. While we agree on the pride these 16 medals have brought to Canada, our pride from Michaelle Jean’s math [...]
The Associated Press reported this Sunday that “Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.” You’d think you’d expect more of the world’s most powerful nation’s vice-president, but then again, didn’t their President [...]
So is it that there are more scandals in sports these days, or just that the media sensationalizes everything? Breaking news today, after the fact that Wayne Gretzky’s wife may have bet on the SuperBowl (honestly who didn’t?), was that Jose Theodore tested positive for Propecia (not allowed in the Olympics, but is in the [...]