According to the Globe and Mail, the temperature in Edmonton reached -46 yesterday morning with wind chill of -59. There was some fascinating ice fog in parts of the city yesterday. It is slightly warmer here today, so I think I might go out...

I discovered during the Newsweek debates (really alternating week editorials) of the late 1960s that Milton Friedman was a whole lot better economist than Paul Samuelson, even though I had been trained otherwise by a bunch of elitist east coast...

I thought it was cold when I was here last year. Here is a photo of current conditions in Edmonton on Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 8am, from the television in our hotel room: And last night my neice made me walk a half mile from her house to the...

This may seem strange to most of you, but recently I received a request from a former student to write a letter of reference on his behalf. He is a baseball player and sports enthusiast. Unfortunately, I misplaced his request and his email address. I'm...

As many of you know, I quite enjoy watching curling (and have done some sportscasting for curling in the past). Some of the best curling in the world is going on right now out in Edmonton as the top Canadian teams vie to represent Canada in Vancouvre...