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In 2005, former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed told a Canadian Club of Calgary gathering that the United States would want our water, and we need to be prepared. “We should not export our fresh water; we need it, and we should conserve it. We should communicate to the...

Corb Lund speaks to members of the Canadian Club of Calgary during a luncheon at the Ranchman’s Club on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. Lund, along with environmentalist Kevin Van Tighem and former Lethbridge mayor Chris Spearman, hosted a talk entitled Voices from the...

Premier Danielle Smith speaks and takes questions at the Canadian Club of Calgary at the Ranchmen’s Club in Calgary on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. A day after Calgary city council voted to wind down work on the Green Line, Premier Danielle Smith said the provincial...

Among those chief areas of interest for Alberta's 10th premier was the future of the country's water supply. In 2005, Lougheed warned Canadian politicians against sharing the country's water supply with the United States. In a speech around that time, he suggested...

Former Reform Party leader Preston Manning issued a dire warning for politicians at a luncheon in Calgary Wednesday afternoon. Western separatist sentiment is on the rise, particularly in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Manning told the crowd at the Canadian Club of...

The founder of what was the Reform Party of Canada is concerned that a pervasive level of alienation could leave the country more divided after next month's federal election. Preston Manning, who channelled western alienation into the creation of the Reform party in...

In what is likely the bluntest of his remarks to date, Burke explains the importance of building a new arena for the Flames to a business luncheon at the Canadian Club of Calgary. “We’re not going to make the threat to leave. We’ll just leave. We still have a building...

Of all the stupid things Calgary Flames president Brian Burke said this week — and it is a long, long list — perhaps the stupidest of all was Burke’s decision to include Manitoba’s experience as evidence of the wisdom of investing huge sums of public money in private...

"We're not going to make the threat to leave. We'll just leave," Burke said at the Canadian Club of Calgary Wednesday, according to a report in the Calgary Sun. "We still have a building that was built in 1983, the oldest in the league by more than 10 years." The...

Burke, president of hockey operations for the Calgary Flames, launched a media storm Wednesday after speaking at a business luncheon at the Canadian Club of Calgary, saying the hockey team will leave Calgary if they don’t get the new arena they’ve been seeking. In...