Does anyone else have a weird feeling about how Calgary’s 2026 Olympic bid plebiscite will play out on Tuesday? At first, I was absolutely certain that city council’s handling of the file would derail the efforts. It was easy to get caught up in the number of calls and texts to the radio station, the […]

To the Editor: Re “‘America First’ Draws Rebuke at Ceremony” (news analysis, front page, Nov. 12): This Veterans Day, as we celebrated memories of those who served, suffered and died for freedom, my disappointment in a president who would not attend an international commemoration of soldiers who died in World War I because of a […]

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe has invited bids for the state-owned airline as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government pushes ahead with a drive to privatize and end state funding to loss-making firms, Air Zimbabwe’s administrator said on Monday. Air Zimbabwe, which owes foreign and domestic creditors more than $300 million, was in October placed into administration to […]

Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams, progressive African-American Democratic candidates, may not have won their races for governor in Florida and Georgia (both are still too close to call). But the strategy they followed is still the best strategy for Democrats to win: inspiring, mobilizing and turning out voters of color and progressive whites. I’ve argued […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s SAP (SAPG.DE) said on Sunday it was buying Qualtrics International Inc for $8 billion in cash, pre-empting a planned stock market listing by the U.S.-based company that specializes in surveying consumers online. The agreed deal, SAP’s biggest since it bought travel and expense management firm Concur in 2014 for $8.3 billion, […]

(Reuters) – Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners is close to a deal to buy software company Apptio Inc (APTI.O) for $1.9 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Shareholders of Apptio would receive $38 per share in the deal that could be announced as soon as Monday, the Journal reported, citing people familiar […]

To the Editor: Re “Forget Excuses. What Counts Is Winning Seats” (column, Nov. 8): I must respectfully disagree with Nicholas Kristof’s takeaway observations about Tuesday’s election. Watching the returns, I was emotional and disappointed about Democratic losses in the Senate and in state races. But by the morning, perspective had returned. Change is incremental and […]

To the Editor: “Rich Parents Ban Devices as the Poor Grow Reliant” (Business Day, Oct. 29) recounts concerns among parents about children spending too much time on smartphones and tablets. These parents believe that schools and educational technology companies share part of the blame for pushing the use of digital learning in schools, increasing the […]

For days, the Canadian Army Veterans (CAV) motorcycle unit in Calgary embraces a duty of exhaustive work. Members spend hours installing the pedestals to support the crosses in the memorial field. Veteran Serge Plante knows the value of what they’re doing. “I will be honest, it’s grueling and we are hurting for a week afterwards, […]

Running for president in 2016, Donald Trump sold two kinds of populism. One appealed to white tribalism and xenophobia — starkly in his early embrace of birtherism, recurrently in his exaggerations about immigrant crime, Muslim terrorism and urban voter fraud. The other was an economic appeal, aimed at working-class voters hit hard by de-industrialization who […]