Opinion

Re: “Reduce carbon in a serious way,” p. 20, Dec.

Is Fort McMurray the extreme threat to the planet that American global warming activists warn when they say continued production from the Canadian oilsands could destroy the world? The numbers say otherwise. Numbers can be tedious and boring.

Having returned from my Christmas holiday in B.C. I sat down to watch some television on a lazy Saturday. It was a nice visit to the Okanagan to see my mom and my sister and her family and get some nice family time.

A rather disconcerting number of people have bought — hook, line and sinker — the notion that the United Nations (UN) is some insidiously nefarious globalist cabal that apparently wants to impose a new world order.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Maybe that’s because if there’s one thing people generally don’t like, it’s change.

The recent death of former Sundre mayor and member of Parliament Myron Thompson is sad news for all who knew and respected him as a colourful and dedicated public servant.

In 2012, Esquire magazine published an anti-oilsands polemic that described Fort McMurray as “the little town that might just destroy the world.

In 2012, Esquire magazine published an anti-oilsands polemic that described Fort McMurray as “the little town that might just destroy the world.

When I rooted around in my memories of Peace River, for clarification I accessed the Record Gazette archives, the local newspaper of the region. While searching I was shocked to find the obituary of one of my friends.