Rick Bell, Calgary Sun

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Past articles by Rick:

Bell: COVID, Kenney and winning the vaccine passport war

Yessir, Kenney will roll out a plan early next week for the lifting of COVID restrictions. He will begin with the vaccine passport. → Read More

Bell: Kenney on lifting COVID restrictions, you'll have to wait

On Tuesday, Kenney speaks of encouraging COVID trends but also speaks of "significant pressure" in big city hospitals. → Read More

Bell: COVID restrictions lifted by St. Patrick's Day? Or earlier?

The premier does say he is one of those who want the vaccine passport gone as quickly as possible — "but that's not right now." → Read More

Bell: UCP pressure builds to nix vaccine passports, lift restrictions

Meanwhile, Kenney is talking a good game for many UCP supporters. Talking. → Read More

Bell: Kenney boxes himself into a COVID corner

Kenney has to make clear where he stands. He must take responsibility for what he has done. → Read More

Bell: Kenney plays COVID-19 tough guy

I sit up straight and turn up the volume when Premier Jason Kenney mentions the C-word. → Read More

Bell: Calgary city hall, $200 million down buys their downtown dream

Back at Calgary city hall, the big blue playpen is nothing if not predictable. → Read More

Bell: Erin O'Toole's kooky broken promise carbon tax. Nuts!

Watching Conservative leader and wannabe prime minister Erin O’Toole on Thursday, I thought what I was watching wasn’t real. → Read More

Bell: Farkas plan to cut city budget done like dinner

His words are still strong despite the whupping.“I’m steamed. But who has it worse? Calgarians,” says Jeromy Farkas, down but not out.“I’ll keep fighting, I have to keep banging the table. I have to represent my constituents.”Another day. Farkas loses. → Read More

Bell: Kenney soon to show us the bad and the ugly

It’s deja vu all over again.Yes, the words of baseball great Yogi Berra come back to haunt us, 26 years later.Alberta’s books are in a real mess. Again.The yearly deficits, where the provincial government spends more than what comes into the kitty. The piling up of debt. → Read More

Bell: Kenney slams what he calls a ‘campaign of revenge’

Jason Kenney would be the first to admit he’d rather be talking about almost anything else.Instead, Kenney says, he has to answer allegations from those in a “sour grapes group” he sees waging a “campaign of revenge. → Read More

Bell: NDP still think they have a shot at winning

The smart money figures this time next week the ballot battle will be on.In a week, Rachel Notley and Jason Kenney will have already fired their first rounds of political ammo. The deep thinkers will have offered up their first not-so-deep thoughts for easy digestion.Time moves quickly. → Read More

Bell: City of Calgary public art, who runs the sideshow?

Ah, city hall. Caught between a shiny split shell of supposed sophistication and a hard place.Yes, deer in the headlights.You see, the city’s northeast wants some art. So it is said.They don’t know what exactly. They haven’t been asked. The city hasn’t talked to them. → Read More

Bell: Calgary Olympics now a walking dead bid

So it came to pass as this scribbler forecast.We’re in Zombie Land.Calgarians will vote Nov. 13 on a bid the city council majority want to kill.On a bid even the chairman of city council’s Olympic committee wants to kill — and he loves the Olympics. → Read More

Bell: Confusion reigns with Winter Olympic bid

Get this straight. The Olympics are not bringing us a new NHL arena.Some people are apparently confused.The Olympic folks say the Saddledome is fine for Calgary’s 2026 Winter Olympic bid.When the bid details roll out earlier this week no new NHL arena is included. No football stadium either. → Read More

Bell: Trudeau had his chance and he blew it

The prime minister is handed a wide-open opportunity to do better, to do much better. And he blew it. He really, truly blew it. We are on the rooftop of a Calgary airport parkade for a government announcement when the news breaks on Friday afternoon. → Read More

Bell: Calgary city hall, why not come clean on pensions?

Jeromy Farkas is in trouble again.The rookie councillor is once again going up against the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil city hall where they believe loose lips could sink their ship.City hall standard operating procedure is to say as little as possible. → Read More

Bell: Where is Trudeau’s promised pipeline law?

For Shannon Stubbs, an Albertan in the House of Commons located in the far away universe known as Ottawa, the clock ticks.For everyone in this province, the clock ticks.And still the puzzler. → Read More

Bell: B.C.'s NDP rulers shaft Alberta — again

You have all the right in the world to be riled up and feel cheated.We weren’t supposed to get the middle finger from the bigshots in British Columbia — again.But we did. On Tuesday &md… → Read More

Bell: NHL commish Bettman says Nenshi told him if the Flames have to move, so they’ll move

Call it what it is. A bombshell. → Read More