As Ian Sees It

    Upsetting.  That's life here in this corner of my home and native land.  Tell you what.  My province is not just beautiful in the three months of spring and summer we receive.  It is full of good and decent people.  Neighbours who help you when you need it.  People who smile and greet you.   Educated people who work hard.  Kind people who give their time to help those who need help.  Volunteers who work thousands of hours a year simply to make their community a better place.  Conservative people who are all those things I just described.  But recently we have busted our butts convincing the rest of this wonderful beautiful country that the opposite is true.      Albertan's are not dumb.  But I think it has been proven repeatedly that even smart people can be more than a little naive when it comes to having  A) Their ego stroked,  or B) Being convinced that they are being used.   ...

   It's our day.  Father's day.  For fathers like me, that is pretty well everyday.  I realize not all fathers have had the experience I have had.   I know choices come with consequences.  I was in a job for a very long time that had me doing some things to which others shy away.  But the job gave me some things that are really worth having.  There is no such thing as a life without pressure, or challenges, or worries.  But I had a good paying secure job that afforded me a decent retirement at a fairly early age.  And all I had to do was get to that age.     A cops life isn't constant danger.  It isn't overly exciting and it isn't glamorous or romantic.  It is often staying up long long hours.  Spending endless nights driving around alone.  (Singing at the top of your lungs to the radio, or doing interviews with the press about the game winning drive you have day dreamed.)  The routine is often int...