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Harper Now Runs Alberta’s $170-Billion Pension Fund. What Could Go Wrong?
Graham Thomson is an award-winning Edmonton-based columnist who has covered Alberta politics for more than 30 years, first with the Edmonton Journal and now as a freelancer. Get some gift-giving ...
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Are We Really Trying to Solve the Housing Crisis?
‘A housing system based on the market mechanism cannot respond to social need,’ says University of Toronto housing scholar David Hulchanski. Photo courtesy of Christopher Cheung. Ten years ago ...
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Controversial Pipeline Fighting to Avoid New Environmental Review
Nick Gottlieb is a writer and a graduate student at Simon Fraser University, as well as the author of Sacred Headwaters. The proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission line is facing similar ...
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The Case for the Carbon Tax
Anti-carbon tax protesters, like these people waving signs and chanting slogans as they block a lane of the Trans-Canada Highway near Cochrane, Alberta, are winning the day. Photo by Jeff McIntosh ...
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What Trump’s Musical Tastes Tell Us about His Appeal
Donald Trump dances onstage during a campaign rally in Novi, Michigan, on Oct. 26. Photo by Anna Moneymaker via Shutterstock. Donald Trump knows the value of music. Get some gift-giving ...
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Housing Costs Drive Vancouver’s Living Wage Up Sharply
Iglika Ivanova is a senior economist at the CCPA-BC and lead author of the Living Wage BC: 2024 Update. Anastasia French is the provincial manager of Living Wage BC. Housing costs have driven up ...
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Is BC’s Wolf Cull Setting the Stage for a Disaster?
Bryce J. Casavant is a former B.C. conservation officer. He lectures at Royal Roads University in the legal aspects of environmental management. The BC government has killed 2,200 wolves since ...
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Oppressors Gonna Oppress. And Get Tossed
A detail from a painting by Jean Froissart of Richard II meeting with the rebels of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Image via Wikimedia. So, the election of Donald Trump and likely coronation of ...
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On BC’s North Coast, First Nations Are Building a New Economy
Guardian Watchmen survey the Great Bear Sea. Photo by Emilee Gilpin, Coastal First Nations. Money doesn’t grow on trees, but in the coastal rainforests of British Columbia, salmon do. After ...
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Shooting Fish (or Elk) in a Barrel
This page requires Javascript. Your browser either doesn't support JavaScript or you have it turned off. Please enable JavaScript before you proceed. Lorne Fitch is a ...
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Dispatch from Alberta’s Coal War
Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. ‘They will leave a mess.’ Country ...
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Lake Babine Elder Handcuffed, Ticketed after Moving Abandoned Bag
Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives in Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on X @amandajfollett. Irene Alec, an Elder with the Lake Babine Nation, says that ...