The Cormac Blog

So we’ve had some BLOCKBUSTER trades with the Flames lately.
I’m not going to go over the details because they can be found almost anywhere.
All you need to know is that 5 Flames are gone, including Dion Phaneuf and Olli Jokinen, and we got 6 players in return. Many of them have contracts that are up […]

Hi all.
I normally don’t do this but I want to ask you all to help out for a good cause.
I’m sure you’ve all noticed the stories about the destruction in Haiti after a massive earthquake earlier in the week. It’s being described as a war zone because most of the landmark buildings in the capital […]

Could we soon see another defector?
A friend in the legislature gave me a shout the other day and proudly had a news tip for me.
He’s been hearing rumours that an Edmonton MLA is going to soon leave the PC Party for the Wildrose Alliance.
The reason you haven’t heard this on the air is because this […]

Is it a surprise that Premier Ed Stelmach is losing some of the MLAs from his party to the Wildrose Alliance, or merely the fulfilment of an expectation?
Reports are, Heather Forsyth from Calgary-Fish Creek and Rob Anderson from Airdrie-Chestermere are the two leaving the government benches.
This will likely be confirmed in a news conference in […]

Premier Ed Stelmach will be doing the cabinet shuffle early in the new year.
The latest BUZZ from the legislature, according to the Herald, is that the changes will be made on January 11th.
After speaking with a few political scientists, this is how the revamped cabinet could look:
Mel Knight will be out of the Energy Ministry […]

I guess it’s that time of year but germs are being spred in our newsroom like wildfire.
It seems everyone here at 660News is SICK and you may have been noticing some changes to our schedule.
Like this morning when Ted Henley showed up for his shift. His voice sounded like he had a piece of rusted metal […]

Today we had a small goodbye party at the station for a wonderful and long-serving member of the Rogers team.
The Coach from the LITE 96 morning show is leaving us. He has spent over a decade with Don and Joanne, bringing us joy, laughter and music from Anne Murray and Michael Buble…I’m sure he’s a […]

I just want to say how disgusted I am with the story I had to cover on Monday.
Apparently some people thought it would be fun to go around spray-painting swastikas and anti-Semitic phrases in two southwest communities.
I won’t even give those people the satisfaction of repeating their hate on this blog.
I say “JERKS” in the […]

I’m back at work after attending the Progressive Conservative Annual General Meeting in Red Deer.
I run the risk of sounding lame but I love going to these political events. You get to see so much more than the staged political events I normally attend.
I didn’t get any great scoops or see any amazing showdown between […]

This week has been all H1N1 all the time.
It’s nuts. The line ups for the clinics are long, the people who are waiting are upset, and some of the lines don’t have an easily accessible bathroom.
I think it’s obvious to everyone involved, from the patients to the Health Minister, that the provincial government was not […]