No time for half-witty headlines or punchy copy today. I’m about two weeks behind in posting links to my latest works, and I still have to tidy up my office. So let’s get right to it!
Here’s my big piece exploring how urban European environmentalists are teaming up with poor, rural Canadian First Nations to fight the oilsands. Might be a sitcom plot in there somewhere (Chauncey and the Chief?). Anyway, no time to work that one out. Here it is:
Here’s my hasty tribute to a man who deserved something far more thoughtful. He got it, but not from me
Norman Borlaug’s fight to feed the world
The best column you’ll read on the Wildrose Alliance victory in the Calgary-Glenmore byelection? Right here, mi amigos:
There’s rebellion afoot in Alberta
Okay, you’ll think I’m kidding about this, but here’s my story about how the National Capital Commission is nervous about allowing a memorial to the, oh, 100 million or so people killed, and hundreds of millions more enslaved worldwide by Communists regimes . . . because it might offend Communists. Really! Just look at the headline:
Ottawa memorial risks offending communists
Speaking of Communists . . . they’re resurgent, as I write here, with some attempt to explain why. Better not piss them off with some kinda provocative monument:
Americans no longer afraid of Mr. Wolff
Not only that, they’re buying up the oilpatch! Should we be worried. No sir. We have nothing but respect for our new Communist overlords. And, even if we didn’t, what harm could they seriously do us in the oilsands? None, say I, in my latest FP Magazine column:
Kevin Libin: Sinophobia in the oilpatch
There’s a couple more items, but I’ll post them later. That wore me out