Dustin Penner. Of course, it would be Dustin Penner. Who didn’t think it would be Dustin Penner? Dustin Penner - punch line for all the pancake jokes. Dustin Penner - trade bait at the deadline, no willing takers. Dustin Penner - free agent at the end of the season, future plans unknown. Sure. Dustin Penner. The man everybody figured would be the goal scorer who would propel the Los Angeles Kings into the Stanley Cup final for the first time in 19 years. More related to this story In this most unusual and inexplicable Stanley Cup playoff season, where the Kings have established an NHL record by winning eight games in a row on the road, it may as well have been Penner who scored ... Continue reading →

by Andrew Beaujon Published May 23, 2012 10:10 am Steve Jeffrey, the owner of the Anchor Weekly in Chestermere, Alberta, has apologized for multiple acts of plagiarism and settled with a writer whose work he pilfered. Sheila Moss, a humor writer in Nashville, says in an email that she and Jeffrey “negotiated a financial settlement with the encouragement of the Alberta Press Council, with whom I had filed a complaint. I feel that the amount was fair and I’m satisfied with the resolution.” Jeffrey wrote a column at the beginning of May in which he apologized to 14 writers, including Moss, from whom he stole. “Many of the words I used in the Lighthouse column over the past year were not mine,” he wrote. A ... Continue reading →

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BFFs – at least for now. Alison Redford and Thomas Lukaszuk: in my Thursday column, I describe Alberta’s premier, and her new deputy premier as Alberta’s political version of TV’s Odd Couple. (Click here to read why.) But there is, perhaps, an even odder relationship at the Alberta legislature – that between Lukaszuk and NDP leader Brian Mason. Mason, you’ll recall, referred to the new deputy premier has a decorative “hood ornament” – with Lukaszuk implying that Mason was more like the legislature’s tail pipe. This might lead you to suspect a fair bit of tension between the two. But behind the scenes, as it were, the legislature doesn’t quite work that way. “Every time I travel, I bring Brian back a gift,” says Lukaszuk. ... Continue reading →

Grant Fuhr with an awesome 80s save. #oilers #rexall http://t.co/qmezml9D Continue reading →