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Wired to Win at the IMAX

Wired to Win at the IMAX

As stunning images of the French countryside and the Alps flashed by on the giant IMAX screen, it was hard to decide what's more impressive: the scenery or the test of physical and mental endurance displayed by Tour de France cyclists.
Dermond Travis: For everything else, there’s a purchase card

Dermond Travis: For everything else, there’s a purchase card

Call it the orange-juice syndrome. Bev Oda, former federal minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency, knows it well.
Comment: We should be citizens, first and foremost

Comment: We should be citizens, first and foremost

The contemporary tendency in politics to refer to individuals as taxpayers, customers or clients instead of citizens is part of a worrisome drift toward the marketization of public affairs. Individuals have many relationships with the state.
A Boomer Ponders Death

A Boomer Ponders Death

Next month I will turn sixty. Sixty means more of my life has passed than is still to come. Barring any unforeseen anomalies, and with the exception of retirement sometime in the future, the next major transition in my life will be death.
William Watson: Frugal ways good qualifications for Senate

William Watson: Frugal ways good qualifications for Senate

At the moment, 12 seats are vacant in the Canadian Senate, including three from Quebec, where I reside (and I really do reside here, as the neighbours whose garbage I put out when they’re away will attest).
Shannon Corregan: Driving habits matter more than speed

Shannon Corregan: Driving habits matter more than speed

July has seen a few changes to speed limits in the region. The B.C.
Comment: What to do about B.C.’s forest industry?

Comment: What to do about B.C.’s forest industry?

The mighty B.C. forest industry is now suffering from both a lack of leadership and a lack of vision in the corporate boardrooms.
Best books on running

Best books on running

What are the best books on running? Lord knows I’ve read a few. I’ll review some of my favourites and tell you if they helped my running, or not, and why. Running books? Oh, I've read a few....
Andrew Cohen: Canada’s foreign policy rigidly absolutist

Andrew Cohen: Canada’s foreign policy rigidly absolutist

Oh, to be Canada in the world today, the country that is right about everything. If one were looking for a word to describe our foreign policy this anxious summer, it would be absolutist. Our view of the world is black and white, right and wrong.
Les Leyne: Power fund will help coastal pulp mills

Les Leyne: Power fund will help coastal pulp mills

It has been a long time coming, but B.C.’s pulp and paper mills might have a chance to get some breathing room on cost pressures with an electricity announcement expected today. Energy Minister Bill Bennett and B.C.