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Everyone favours freedom of speech as a general principle. It is only in the particular that the sheep are separated from the goats. Thus B.C. Attorney General Ujjal Dosanjh supports [...]

Marriage used to be 'until death do us part.' The federal Divorce Act of 1968 ended that. Now the Supreme Court of Canada has revived that age-old commitment--sort of. In [...]

British Columbians were shocked last month by a civil lawsuit that revealed how the independence of social workers can be abused by the unscrupulous. In a lawsuit before the B.C. [...]

More than any other single measure, computers and network technologies, properly implemented, offer the greatest potential to right what's wrong with our public schools.' This proclamation by a California task [...]

When Statistics Canada told pathologist Scott Cornell his household had been selected to complete the Survey of Family Expenditures last year, he said he was not interested. Then he was [...]

The millions of Canadians tuning in to CBC on Sunday nights at 7 p.m. to watch Emily of New Moon are likely expecting turn-of-the-century family fare. They are getting period [...]

British Columbia's mild climate has long made that province an ideal home for seniors. But now it seems that more of the elderly are willing to brave the bone-chilling winters [...]

There was friendly debate on most of the resolutions brought before Alberta's Conservative convention two weekends ago. However, two resolutions on education, one of which called for an end to [...]

Removing video lottery terminals (VLTs) from a municipality once seemed simple: the provincial government promised in February that if towns held a plebiscite and found that the majority of voters [...]

The direction of the Alberta Progressive Conservative convention was set right at the start. On the evening of October 24, about 800 delegates met to hear Ralph Klein's opening speech, [...]

The Hotel de Health project to turn unused Alberta hospital space into a medical resort for Americans last year was unsuccessful. Health privatizers, however, seem undeterred, and so does the [...]

To gather opinions on the Calgary Declaration, the Alberta government is undertaking an unprecedented consultation. A four-page brochure and questionnaire will be sent to every household in the province. Ideas [...]

In the world of educational philosophy, the theorist reigns supreme. But not in Edmonton Public Schools (EPS). Elsewhere, new, untried and frequently foolish innovations are foisted on students against the [...]

In his first term as MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat, Lorne Taylor was a member of the 'Deep Six,' a group of Conservative back-benchers determined to curtail spending. Since the Conservatives' [...]

The Alberta Lotteries Review Committee released a report, 'New Directions for Lotteries and Gaming,' in August 1995 which suggested that art of low moral standard 'should not receive public money.' [...]

We're saying that if any community wants to get rid of VLTs, they'll be gone immediately. Overnight or within seven days, at the most,' Premier Ralph Klein said in March. [...]

Canada's federally-administered North seems to enjoy experimenting with government. Proposals for gender-equal and racially-based legislatures have come out of the region, and now word has emerged of what may be [...]

At a guess, it seems probable that about 1% of the population of central Alberta are burdened with oversized ears. Some are only moderately enlarged, while others with Dumbo-sized auditory [...]

In the 1990s, there are more female lawyers and judges than ever, many from feminist-dominated law schools. A possible consequence manifested itself in a Calgary courtroom two weeks ago when [...]

July was a mixed bag for antigambling activists. They continued to score victories at the municipal level against video lottery terminals (VLTs), but the provincial government cancelled their progress by [...]

The one issue that unites Alberta social conservatives is a rejection of special privileges for homosexuals. But when Ralph Klein declared two weeks ago that foster children could now be [...]

Alberta's four-year experiment in privatized liquor sales has been an unqualified success. There are many more stores, offering longer hours, greater convenience, increased selection and lower prices. Not surprisingly, consumers [...]

Commenting last year on resistance from the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) to his department's plan to allow privatization of child welfare services, Social Services spokesman Bob Scott was [...]

Marianne Dueck was riding her motorcycle home, heading toward Edmonton on Highway 16, when she had an encounter that made her doubt her eyes, if not her sanity. 'It was [...]

On an official visit to Russia in 1993, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney teamed up with President Boris Yeltsin for a successful boar hunt. The two leaders posed for a [...]

Since February, when Alberta let municipalities ban video lottery terminals (VLTs) by plebiscite, the fight over the machines has been waged mostly at the local level, with hotel and bar [...]

Video lottery terminals became an issue during Alberta's provincial election this spring, after outcries that the machines were damaging family finances. The Liberal and Social Credit parties made the provincewide [...]

Everyone knows that a child is the result of the fertilization of a woman's egg by a man's sperm. But the knowledge that a child is more than the sum [...]

A young family that decides to pull up its stakes and move to another city rarely does so without reservations. Relocation for work or education may mean bidding adieu to [...]

The Klein government has introduced a dual market in pork, and has campaigned against the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly over export sales of wheat and barley. Given this commitment to [...]

Five weeks into a strike, Canada Safeway has realized it is losing the public relations war to its 11,000 striking Alberta workers. A poll released by the employees' union last [...]

The early feminist demand to 'have it all'--marriage and a career--is dying out, though not in a way traditionalists will like. Young Canadian women--especially working women--are increasingly choosing common-law relationships [...]

As they were leaving Edmonton's Winspear Centre concert hall following a recent appearance by American feminist icon Gloria Steinem, two young women expressed displeasure to their two older female companions. [...]

By any measure, John MacEachran was an outstanding Albertan. The internationally-trained academic, who arrived in Edmonton in 1909, founded the University of Alberta departments of philosophy and psychology. Two scholarships, [...]

Violent incidents--from punch-ups to deadly assaults--have become commonplace in Alberta schools. But until now they have usually been boy-on-boy assaults. So a report that Edmonton high school students watched impassively [...]

Because openly homosexual NDP MP Svend Robinson has long championed 'gay rights,' it was no bombshell earlier this year when he introduced a private member's bill in Parliament to legalize [...]

Homosexuals are different, say gay opponents to Svend Robinson's same-sex marriage bill Because openly homosexual NDP MP Svend Robinson has long championed 'gay rights,' it was no bombshell earlier this [...]

Magdi Moussa was fascinated with mercury. The Egyptian-born dentist played with the liquid metal for about 20 years with no apparent adverse consequences--until he dropped a tiny bit of it [...]

Tenants flee a Vancouver building after a dentist dies from mercury poisoning Magdi Moussa was fascinated with mercury. The Egyptian-born dentist played with the liquid metal for about 20 years [...]

How did Greenpeace change from a modest band of crusaders to the global scourge of logging, sealing and whaling? The transformation was largely the work of one man--David McTaggart. His [...]

After he retired from the music business, Terry Jacks became an environmentalist. Today he concentrates on conserving his reputation. Another victim of B.C.'s zero-tolerance policy on domestic abuse, he has [...]

David McTaggart, once a bankrupt playboy, got rich on Greenpeace before he died How did Greenpeace change from a modest band of crusaders to the global scourge of logging, sealing [...]

Pop legend Terry Jacks is charged with criminal assault by his departing spouse After he retired from the music business, Terry Jacks became an environmentalist. Today he concentrates on conserving [...]

Norman Porter has learned it does not pay to cheat. The Victoria-area man built a $60,000 garage and then discovered part of it stood on his neighbour's land. It was [...]

The price of 'inappropriate touching' is particularly high in British Columbia. Former NDP MLA and cabinet minister Robin Blencoe was accused of sexual harassment in 1995. Six years later, it [...]