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Firewood night in Norway is a TV hit

Twenty per cent of Norway’s population viewed a 12-hour television program by state broadcaster NRK called National Firewood Night. The show, which aired Feb. 15, featured four hours of people chopping wood and talking about it, and then eight hours of a fireplace in a Bergen farmhouse. NRK ph

Saskatoon’s out of short pants, so we need better election rules

I bet a lot of people in Saskatoon think that civic elections are nice, quaint affairs where some guy stands in the ditch and waves at traffic every few years. But lately municipal politics and politicians have been grabbing the headlines across Canada for all the wrong reasons — and there are

Legal advice fund for mayor, councillors is probably a good idea

When a video surfaced last month of Calgary developer Cal Wenzel speaking at a private meeting of homebuilders about making unclaimed (read: illegal) campaign contributions to stack Calgary City Council with sympathetic politicians and tip the balance of power against Naheed Nenshi, the most popular

Harper’s sociology smear plays to his base

Epigraphs (3):“I think, though, this is not the time to commit sociology, if I can use an expression. These things are serious threats, global terrorist attacks… I don’t think we want to convey any view to the Canadian public other than our utter condemnation of this kind of viole

Canada is ready for an energy renewal

Some people think a widespread shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources is not practical or even possible. You’ve probably heard the arguments: wind doesn’t always blow, sun doesn’t always shine, the technology’s not advanced enough, installations take up too much sp

3D printing is bigger than Internet guns

The story so far: Cody Wilson, who describes himself as a “crypto-anarchist” and almost certainly wears a Second Amendment belt-buckle, had a bright idea early last year. No government could ever oppress its people again, reasoned the 25-year-old law student at the University of Texas, i

Saskatchewan passes a far-reaching bill

Legislation doesn’t spring from the ground fully formed. There’s all sorts of steps that governments typically take when drafting laws, from gathering public (and private) input to committee hearings, debate in the assembly and whatnot. Even after a bill is passed that’s not necess