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Bruce Dowbiggin's work demonstrates a strong focus on expert commentary and opinion editorial pieces, particularly in the areas of sports, culture & society, as well as legal policy regulation. His coverage is primarily local to Canada, with specific attention to Alberta and Red Deer.
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When baseball labour pioneer Curt Flood was challenging baseball's antitrust exemption that tied a player to a team for life, Howard Cosell asked him a question. “Hey Curt,” he said. “You say your situation is like slavery. But you're making $90,000 a year. You play a kid's game. How can that be slavery?”
Well, Canada— and Toronto in particular— now has an idea what $1.2 B paid to FIFA buys you. It buys you Canadians flying in from elsewhere to prove their bona fides to a nation that they left behin…
In case you were too busy watching the World Cup, Canada's PM, the Inconvenient Banker, went on the road again. (Tribute to Hank Snow of Nova Scotia) This time to Ireland where he's claiming bragging status as a descendent of County Mayo. While he was waxing philosophical about the historic Irish culture, he has ideas about Canada's historic culture.
By: Bruce Dowbiggin
One of the joys of the current World Cup soccer event is seeing the unbridled joy of the Europeans who have decamped to North America to follow their teams. The Caledonian Crusade of kilted Scots in Boston. The Hup-Hup Orange flood of Dutch fans in Dallas. The massed Norwegians pulling en masse on the oars in Seattle.
It's been a year of mixed messages for Canadian mens hockey in 2026. The defeat at the hands of the Americans in the Winter Olympics was added to the loss in the Mens U18 at the World Juniors. No Canadian team made it past the second round the NHL playoffs.
By: Bruce Dowbiggin
“The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.” James Thorne
For the millions who’ve discovered the FIFA 2026 World championships the past two weeks you’re entitled to ask “What in the name of Diego Maradona is offside, and why are they taking away all these…
With her soulless eyes and laconic delivery she's the Stasi version of Jodie Foster. Beware when Melanie Joly, dirge-like holdover from the Trudeau
By: Bruce Dowbiggin
People in Canada's sports business were shocked to learn that Rogers shuttered six of its sports talk radio stations across the country, in what it apparently considers to be smaller markets like Vancouver and Calgary, the nation's third and fourth largest cities.
“We’re not putting your booze on shelves or buying your shit until you treat us with RESPECT!” OShow Ever wonder why Elbows Up— so based, so mellow— are angry all the time about Trump? Canadians ha…
