Opinion

I think the most non-Ukrainian thing about me and my pure Ukrainian heritage on both sides is my food preferences.

Of all the periods to fall apart in, it happened in the third period of the gold medal final at the 2011 World Junior Hockey Championships. Up 3-0 heading into the third period, Team Canada was poised to take the gold. But somehow they faltered.

You might think that you have the right to express your opinion without government censorship or punitive action against you for holding an unpopular or politically incorrect viewpoint in Canada - but you'd be wrong.

It was likely a thoughtless action, not intended to cause serious injury.

It will be a game permanently etched into Canadian hockey fans’ memories, and a game that will be referenced over and over again by hockey pundits whenever Canadian hockey teams play on the international level in decades to come.

This time of year, we all struggle to pay our bills, clear off the credit card debt from the holiday and get our finances in order before tax season arrives.

When the dialysis bus drove into Lac La Biche and provided dialysis treatment to local patients, it would have been nice to leave the story on a happy note. But that just isn't the case.

Most of us think it couldn’t happen to us. We don’t truly believe that we could be the ones to lose our homes or businesses to a fire, that we could be caught up in an act of robbery or violence, or that we could be in a major accident.

As the next decades of parenthood stretch before me, I find myself more and more scared. There are lots of reasons for fear, including what the future world will be like for my kid(s) and what kind of trouble they might get into.

The Canadian West Foundation's State of the West report for 2010 makes good on its promise to show the importance and uniqueness of western provinces in Canada. Canada's other provinces may want to take note. Western Canada accounts for over 37.