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Unto you today, a Saviour is born
Today, as is our tradition, the Herald is reprinting the Nativity narrative from the Gospel according to Luke 2:1-20.
The Editorial Page
Christmas has long been dogged by anodyne phrases such as
"Happy Holidays" and "Season's Greetings" but that little effort to
soothe the supposedly delicate feelings of non-Christians happily
appears to be lost on Calgarians.
The Editorial Page
Sometimes, it takes the world's most powerful nation longer
to catch up with less powerful, but more socially progressive
nations like Canada.
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CPP needs boost
A new registered savings plan for workers without a company pension increases the choice of retirement-savings vehicles. However, it fails to ensure retirement security for millions of Canadian workers, a concern that still needs to be addressed.
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Canada already is an energy superpower
Talk of Canada as an energy superpower has taken hold again. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty -- who was just in Kananaskis to meet with provincial finance ministers -- recently reminded a New York audience of our desirability as a supplier of U.S. energy needs, noting our safe geo-political environment among other advantages over many of the world's regimes.
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Bank of Canada asks: Do you feel lucky?
It may have the ring of an old-time preacher warning parishioners in his congregation about temptations that lead them a fiery destination, but the Bank of Canada was at it again recently about the high level of Canadian consumer debt.
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Boos for ballet critic
When New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay criticized ballerina Jenifer Ringer for "looking as if she'd eaten one sugar plum too many," he dealt a cruel blow to the battle against eating disorders.
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Getting educated on saving schools
A baby boom that's putting more pressure on school facilities is actually a good opportunity to revisit what to do with under-utilized, inner-city schools.
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Wishing upon a taxi
'T is the season for taxi shortages. Thankfully, Santa arrived early this year for late-night partiers. The city has introduced 12 new taxi stands that will make catching a cab at closing time a lot easier in some neighbourhoods.
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Editorial: Credit-card levies deserve review
Here's a bit of Christmas cheer for Canadian businesses and consumers alike: the country's competition watchdog is taking a hard look at credit-card merchant fees that are among the highest in the world.
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Good news for ducks
Some environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, are skeptical of the motives of seven oilsands companies to collaborate on tailings ponds research. It's all about saving money rather than the environment, a Sierra Club spokesperson said.
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Editorial: The frightening debt danger
Our ratio of household debt versus disposable income has now reached record levels -- 148.1 per cent.
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Rightful rebukes
In its sweeping report on the environmental and health implications of the oilsands, the Royal Society of Canada's expert panel clears up misinformation and mythmaking, and dismisses unfair claims often perpetuated by critics and the media.
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Making the grade
We aren't No. 1 when it comes to education. Those whose first response when presented with a test score of 94 per cent is to ask "What happened to the other six per cent?" may be wringing their hands at this news of Canada's performance in the most recent international scholastic tests.
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Making the grade
We aren't No. 1 when it comes to education. Those whose first response when presented with a test score of 94 per cent is to ask "What happened to the other six per cent?" may be wringing their hands at this news of Canada's performance in the most recent international scholastic tests.
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Opinion: Resolving to come clean
It's a start. In the wake of shocking revelations from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) about the outrageous salaries pulled in by hundreds of native chiefs across Canada, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) passed a resolution Tuesday requiring elected band officials to make their salaries and expenses available to their members.
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What's in a name?
The day after Mayor Naheed Nenshi's stunning election victory, he promised Calgarians "real, concrete, visible changes in how city council and city hall" does its business. He said: "I suggest, look out, there are some big changes coming very quickly."
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The elephant next door
The prospect of Canada ceding sovereignty to the U.S. in a secretly negotiated border security arrangement has understandably raised the hackles of the Opposition and the Council of Canadians. A draft proposal of a deal leaked last week talks of a perimeter security arrangement. It is thin on specifics. Canadians have a right to be nervous.
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Graham Thomson
Premier Stelmach's 'annus horribilis'
For Premier Ed Stelmach, 2010 has been -- to borrow a term used by the Queen in 1992 -- an "annus horribilis."
Susan Martinuk
Christmas is a choice that leads to reconciliation
1914. The world was at war, awash in the violence and horror of men slaughtering each other in a desperate search for peace.
Bishop Fred Henry
Message from Calgary Bishop Fred Henry: Christmas presents and Christmas presence
We should not neglect works of imagination that attempt to infuse the popular mind with the Christmas spirit. When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, he intended to redeem the bleak work ethic of Victorian England with a renewal of Christian charity, just as in the wake of the Great Depression Frank Capra sought with It's a Wonderful Life to revive a sense of community and the common good. Transforming imaginations is integral to incarnation. We who are the church -- especially artists, writers, filmmakers, advertisers and broadcasters -- need to do today what Dickens and Capra did for their times.
