The Wall of Rants

May 11  • 

ARE WE READY TO LEAD?

It wasn’t anything obvious….just three observations in slightly more than a week in and around the Former Centre of the Universe: The cab driver in...

May 10  • 

HELLO AGAIN

I’m back after a quickish trip to Ontario. We attended a wedding in Toronto, visited with Martha’s family for a few days and then headed about as far...


April 27  • 

“I FELL IN TO A BURNING LAKE OF FIRE…”

Less than a week to go until election day, and far too many days have gone by since I last ranted on this page. But I’ve been busy trying to retire...

April 24  • 

HOORAY! IT’S OVER!

I arrived home early this morning from doing election coverage on Global to find a handwritten note from my daughter Jenn next to my placemat on the...


April 5  • 

ROSE GARDENS PART 2

Conventional wisdom has it that election campaigning will ramp back considerably this long weekend, since the real world won’t be interested in...

April 4  • 

I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN…BUT THEY WILL

If life is going to be dramatically different from what it was as an MLA, it is not obvious yet – not by a long shot. Both in politics and media,...


March 27  • 

OBSERVATIONS FROM A RECOVERING POLITICIAN…

Twenty-four or so hours into my “retirement”, life hasn’t slowed down a bit. My “retirement” began yesterday morning at the moment Alison Redford called...