I don't think it was the pressure of the contract or anything else. I really think it was the physical shortcomings he had to deal with because of the injuries, and that kind of slowed him down in the first half.

If we're competitive, we have great fans here. Calgary is a wealthy city, and Alberta is a wealthy province. The problem isn't the small market -- our problem is for seven years, we haven't got into the playoffs. We have to make the playoffs and show all the people. If we come up and make the playoffs this year, this franchise could take off big time.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

[Television] has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

It was a way to do something that seemed to be needed journalistically and yet was different from what the commercial network news (programs) were doing,

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.