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Teeter-totter approach to fitness
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F or all of its studies, commissions, focus groups and countless efforts to combat childhood obesity, the province has miles to go in delivering a consistent and effective message. New elementary schools opened this week, but without playgrounds an obvious, easy and inexpensive way to increase exercise among schoolchildren disappears as well. Seven years after the Alberta Commission on Learning c
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5 Votes
It's not censorship: Alberta should have vetoed funding for anti-oilsands film
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Denying money to a film project is not censorship. It's called a rejection letter. Censorship would be giving money to a film and then demanding script approval or disallowing its production altogether. Premier Ed Stelmach and Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett seem unable to grasp this point. They say there is no mechanism in Alberta's film funding process by which a project can be vetted for con
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9 Votes
It's not censorship
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D enying money to a film project is not censorship. It's called a rejection letter. Censorship would be giving money to a film and then demanding script approval or disallowing its production altogether. Premier Ed Stelmach and Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett seem unable to grasp this point. They say there is no mechanism in Alberta's film funding process by which a project can be vetted for co
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11 Votes
Get track off to the races
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Alberta has no Royal Ascot, but horses and horse racing has deep roots in the province. It's a $350-million-a-year industry that deserves to be supported.
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14 Votes
Bully tactics
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T he Alberta legislature's rules against mixing legislative and party business have become so picayune and open to partisan interpretation that they either need to be amended or totally scrapped. At issue is a letter from David McNeil, the neutral clerk of the legislative assembly, to the Wildrose Alliance ordering the right-of-centre party not to quote its leader, Danielle Smith, in press releas
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16 Votes
Parents' rights law not needed
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M ost Albertans would agree parents have the right to pull their children out of classes that teach values which run counter to their own. At the very least, parents should be informed in writing when the curriculum is headed into a potential no-go zone.
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12 Votes
Credibility 'Gap'
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W e're all for corporate social responsibility, but we wonder if Walgreens, The Gap, Levi Strauss and Timberland are aware that they may be contributing to global warming by joining the naive Forest Ethics boycott of fuel derived from Alberta's oilsands.
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15 Votes
The lure of jihad
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H e's a moonwalking, Montreal-born dad who plays ball hockey, sings Avril Lavigne songs and launched a promising medical career after graduating from one of Canada's -- if not the world's -- top medical schools. He even appeared on Canadian Idol while affecting an accent, donning traditional garb and pretending to a be a recent immigrant from Pakistan. The thought of fun-loving Dr. Khurram Sher a
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