Blog August 6
Will Saudi Arabia's diplomatic tantrum provoke cognitive dissonance in Canada's 'ethical oil' crowd?
David J. Climenhaga | Saudi Arabia is sending Canada's ambassador home. And if we don't shut up about their human rights abuses, they say they'll interfere in Canadian politics.
Blog August 6
The Grande Prairie Hospital saga
David J. Climenhaga | Innovative? In 2011, the Conservatives actually started construction on the still-unfinished Grande Prairie hospital before they knew exactly what they planned to put inside it!
Blog August 6
Finding the right exit door for Trump
Penney Kome | With the Mueller investigation ongoing and the Manafort trial shaping up, the upcoming midterm elections may well be the most important elections in U.S. history.
Columnists August 6
Images: Joe Sacco illustrations from 'Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale' (Courtesy of MIT Press). Images have been cropped.
A tar sands travelogue blends comic book art with investigative stories
June Chua | 'Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale' is an important, accessible look at the tar sands problem and what it means for Indigenous communities, Alberta, and Canada.
Columnists August 5
Photo: Democracy Now!
A Mexican journalist's fight for asylum and a free press
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | Emilio Gutierrez Soto, a journalist who fled certain assassination in his native Mexico, has just been released from an immigrant detention center in Texas.
Blog August 2
Muhammed Abu Marzouk
Canadians need a reality check about who exactly experiences hate crimes
Judy Haiven | Contrary to what groups like B'nai Brith Canada would have us believe, the main targets of violence in Canada are not Jews, but people of colour.
Blog August 2
Janis Irwin with Brian Mason in 2017 (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).
Respected community advocate Janis Irwin seeks NDP nomination in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood
David J. Climenhaga | Thanks to previous Alberta NDP leaders Brian Mason, Pam Barrett and Ray Martin, Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood is one of the safer ridings for the NDP in Alberta.
News August 2
From left to right: Natalie Hanna, Sarah Waisvisz, Sarah Kabamba, Manahil Bandukwala, Sanita Fejsic. Photo: Marie-Pierre Daigle
In/Words magazine takes a look in the mirror at our post-truth world
Clarissa Fortin | The Ottawa literary magazine now raising funds to deliver new special issue called Dis(s)ent
Podcast August 2
Photo: Sophia Reuss at Columbus Circle, New York City
Rethinking the possible – rabble assistant editor Sophia Reuss talks about why she decided to move back home to the US
Victoria Fenner | To stay in Canada or go back home to the US is a question that Americans living in Canada sometimes ask themselves these politically volatile days. Here are one woman's reasons why she went back home.
Columnists August 1
Woman texting. Photo: Intel Free Press/Flickr
It's time to bring Canada's wireless market out of the Stone Age -- here's how
Marie Aspiazu, Digital Freedom Update | Why are we stuck paying sky-rocketing bills while Big Telecom's narrative is all about increased investment and providing quality service?
Blog August 1
Alberta Pollster Janet Brown (Photo: David J. Climenhaga)
Polling oversight group shutters, leaving questions unanswered about botched polls
David J. Climenhaga | Carleton University Journalism Professor Paul Adams, one of the three high-profile inquiry members, said this morning the surprise announcement leaves the panel "in a bit of a quandary."
Blog August 1
Alberta pollster predicting UCP victory has a bit of a history
David J. Climenhaga | In 2017, the pollster that published optimistic results for the UCP yesterday admitted to "a catastrophic polling failure" in its coverage of the Calgary civic election.