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I started reading "Stupid to the last drop" yesterday, which is about the oil sands and how Alberta is screwing the environment. I plan to write a column about this one, because it's very controversial and is already fascinating me.

I've learned that in 1959, there was a big plan to put a nuclear bomb in northern Alberta, in order to have better access to the oil sands. Craziness.

I'm a little skeptical about this book, because it's written by a Montrealer, and I have noticed that I tend to be a little distrustful when non-Westerners try to write about the West because they tend to get it wrong.

When I was living in Montreal, the National Post ran a story with the headline, "The West feels alienated".

I just started snickering, because to me, that's not news.

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Diana, my editor, was given this really cool peace of historic memorabilia last week. Basically, it's a copy of an ad campaign done by Coca-Cola, about how sled dogs were used to bring Coke to the wilds of the unpopulated Peace River area. The ad must be quite old, because it says "Coke is now available in 76 foreign countries."

Considering that I could find Coke in the desert in Mongolia, I'm sure that this ad is pretty old.

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A week or two, I read a nasty and very mean review of all four of the books published this year by Frontenac House. I brushed it off, but it still stung like a pesky insect bite.

However, this morning, I found this review.

It makes up for the nasties.

What I've been reading lately

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