Kevin Libin

In the Tigers’ den

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:09:04 +0000

Whoops! Maybe Canada’s efforts to attract foreign capital to the country are working too well when the Tamil Tigers are looking at moving their headquarters here.

Will Canada play host to a Tamil government-in-exile?

Where beer does flow and men chunder

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:02:12 +0000

What do you do when boatloads of questionable asylum seekers swamp your country’s generous immigration system—as may be starting to happen with a second Tamil ship washing up on Canada’s coast? Ask the land down under.

What Australia can teach us about the Tamil asylum seekers

Calgary’s sky is falling

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:32:27 +0000

Or at least a ridiculous amount of construction material is. I try to find out why… and fail.

Caution in Calgary: Objects continue to fall from work sites

Worldwide death and destruction rescheduled

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:29:22 +0000

So, you’re the World Health Organization, and you’ve basically been dead wrong in predicting millions of deaths by pandemic. What do you do?

You try again.

Who cancels its false alarm

Comeuppance: as dish best served cold. Also, eel pie.

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:01:12 +0000

So the Brits don’t like the anti-oil enviro hysteria? Yeah—guess what? US NEITHER.

My monthly FP Business column, this one on the UK’s taste of its own medicine.

It’s just not cricket

The Swann mating call

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:48:15 +0000

“Albertans need a more progressive alternative” is the cry of the Alberta Liberal, and why the current leader Dr. David Swann is attempting to cooperate with the NDP, among others. Of course, the last time in modern history that the Liberals threatened power in the province is the one time they pitched themselves as more conservative than the Progressive Conservatives. But, hey, there’s always the power of faith and who would doubt the strategic savviness of a party that hasn’t won an election in, oh…89 years.

Liberals have a winning shot, but lack ammo

Wildrose killer

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:47:39 +0000

Alberta PCs once called Ted Morton a “redneck, religious, Republican” stereotype. Today, they’re just grateful to have a respected conservative in their cabinet to beat back the political threat from the right. Trouble is, Alberta’s finance minister may not be ready to fight. It’s my profile of the enigmatic Frederick Lee Morton, aka…

Tory Gunslinger

Deconstructing bus imagery in contemporary Canadian politics

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:44:04 +0000

When is a broken transmission not just a broken transmission? When it’s on Michael Ignatieff’s Liberal Express campaign bus. I argue favour of the hackneyed journalistic metaphor with my critically acclaimed Full Comment Forum peers:

Full Comment Forum: The Liberals on the bus go down and down…

End of the runway

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:23:39 +0000

Edmonton has a competitive commercial advantage few cities are lucky enough to own: a commuter airport smack dab in it’s downtown core. Don’t worry: it won’t last.

Class war in the air

But who will commemorate our Oaks and Maples?

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:13:10 +0000

History is written by the victors. Street names, on the other hand, are written by whoever makes the most emotional pseudo-patriotic appeals. It doesn’t have to be so, or so I try convincing my erudite peers on the Full Comment Forum:

Full Comment Forum: Wellington St. by any other name is still stuck in Ottawa