the refusal of our elected leaders to take any responsibility for their own failures is grating on my nerves.

Fire is engulfing a high-rise residential tower in Dubai. The city's police say firefighters are on the scene and that no injuries have been reported so far in the blaze at the Torch Tower.  A Massachusetts woman who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to "get back in" a truck filled with toxic gas was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. The Washington Post has obtained a transcript of a contentious phone call about that between Mr. Trump and his Mexican counterpart, President Enrique Pena Nieto. 

Documents released under the freedom-of-information law show Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has received sensitive documents, including a draft of the provincial budget speech, through his wife's personal email account. The investigation into the Mount Polley tailings pond disaster is continuing, despite the deadline for filing provincial charges drawing near. President Donald Trump got behind a bill to drastically cut legal immigration and replace current employment based visas with a point system.

This is a show that features people who know a tell story. Yours truly believes that while many can read news stories, very few can tell them.

If an election was held in Alberta today, the UCP would win in a landslide. According to a new poll.

A Mulroney is heading back into politics... Trudeau and Trump are two peas in a pod...

NASA is looking to hire a 'planetary protection officer'- a position that pays between $124,406 and $187,000 per year. The Neymar transfer saga is apparently over-  he's reportedly agreed to a contract with Paris Saint-Germain worth a gargantuan £450 million in total. Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse is out for the rest of the season due to a hamstring injury. 

In a German prison camp over seven decades ago, one man did the unthinkable. Staring down the barrel of his Nazi captor’s pistol, this American soldier refused to identify which of his fellow prisoners of war were Jewish.