McQUARRIE – How long is too long to be on City council?
BOB DYLAN DROPPED BY this morning to give me a hand writing today’s column. Okay, okay, maybe dropped by is a bit of an exaggeration but as I began writing, I did have [Continue]
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McQUARRIE – Dog days of summer ahead of civic election frenzy
The August heat has settled in and temperatures in the high 30’s are the norm for the next several weeks. Summer vacations are still happening but you can already see a [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the weaponization of politics
“REVENGE IS A DISH best served cold.” No one is certain who first said these words but in the case of Premier Doug Ford of Ontario, it could be rewritten to say something [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Some things we’ll be hearing from candidates in election
A QUESTION I’m often asked these days is whether or not I’m again running for mayor or perhaps City councillor. Well, if last year’s by-election taught me anything, [Continue]
McQUARRIE – An inter-community bus system is worth subsidizing
DID ANYONE ELSE notice the sounds of silence and inaction from Ottawa and Edmonton when Greyhound announced they were abandoning passenger and freight service in the West? [Continue]
McQUARRIE – What walking the talk on the needles issue really means
BEFORE WRITING this week’s column, I asked the mayor along with our eight City councillors if they could provide some perspective on a rather sensitive and fractious issue [Continue]
McQUARRIE – The American tyrant and the rise of racism in Canada
“HEY LADY, did your white husband meet you online?” A random and unprovoked question directed towards a family member of mine living in Alberta. She’s Canadian, has [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Oil companies: reminiscent of ’70s tobacco industry
A RECENT OPINION PIECE in the Financial Post by Gwyn Morgan, founding and now retired CEO of EnCana, tackles the oil/jobs/climate change debate from the perspective of one [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Where’s Jagmeet Singh in the controversy over G7?
AS A RESULT of the Trump debacle at last weekend’s G7 meeting, I have a number of questions and concerns and the first one is a bit like the “Where’s Waldo” game. [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Charlotte Whitton would not have been pleased with ‘Run’ forum
I’M GOING TO TAKE ON a subject this week that, for an opinion writer, is fraught with peril and affords an even higher degree of risk when said writer is male, white [Continue]
McQUARRIE – Climate change – I thought it was just a hoax
LAST SUMMER was a devastating year for the Cariboo, with nearly 20 wildfires merging into one and creating a firestorm on the Cariboo Plateau that had never been experienced [Continue]
McQUARRIE – City should correct mistake, buy back old railway station
WHAT BUILDING did the City sell to the private sector for $1 that every summer sees more than a 100,000 high-end visitors from around the world? Need another hint? It is one [Continue]
McQUARRIE – They’ve got us over a barrel – of oil, that is
HAVE YOU EVER wondered how to get the attention of gas retailers such as, Petro Can, Chevron or others? I have and if coffee shop conversations are any indicator, so too have [Continue]
McQUARRIE – We should be able to agree: fossil fuels are running out
I CRINGE with almost every conversation and social media post about the Kinder Morgan pipeline as inevitably someone, thinking they are quite witty and original, will say [Continue]
