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Leo Panitch, intellectual pillar of the Canadian left, dead at 75 of COVID-19

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Leo Victor Panitch, one of the intellectual pillars of the Canadian left and a leading scholar of the global depredations of neoliberalism, died Saturday from COVID-19. He was 75. Born into a working class Jewish

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Bestsellers

Dec 19, 2020

Sounds like Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to Pronounce Knife and Barack Obama’s A Promised Land are the holiday books of 2020

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Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. The lists are compiled by the Book Publishers Association of

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 18, 2020

When is a rule not a rule? When a maskless minister from Alberta’s United Conservative Party is breaking it

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COVID-19 has now killed at least 790 Albertans. It fell to Chief Medical Officer of Health Deena Hinshaw to break the dark news yesterday that 30 COVID-19 deaths had been reported in the previous 24

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 17, 2020

Brace yourself, Alberta, Toyota’s plan to build electric cars with solid-state batteries sounds like the real thing

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Word about solid-state batteries out of Toyota City last week created a buzz in the automotive press and got some headlines on social media, but I doubt very many people out here in Wild Rose

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 16, 2020

Tire-screeching reversal on COVID-19 vaccine timing shows Canada’s Conservatives can turn on a dime!

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You can hardly blame the United Conservative Party’s leaders for trying to get out there as quickly as possible to take credit for the arrival of the first planeloads of COVID-19 vaccine in Alberta. Premier

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 15, 2020

10 months in the life of Jason Kenney: from bitter foe of illegal protests to fierce defender of protesters’ rights, or something

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What a difference a year makes! Not even a year: Ten months in the life of Jason Kenney. Ten months ago, blockades in support of opposition by members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation to pipeline

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 14, 2020

New Zealand eyes reopening borders a crack while Calgary crowd protests ‘draconian’ COVID-19 restrictions

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After being declared COVID-19 free last June, New Zealand is ever-so-cautiously moving toward reopening its watery borders to some international travel. With Australia, that is. Australia hasn’t done quite as well countering the coronavirus as

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David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 12, 2020

Pretty much a dud, but still alive, Alberta’s ‘Energy War Room’ stumbles along after a year

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Alberta’s “Energy War Room” was a year old yesterday and while the cash lavished on the self-described purveyor of a “fact-based narrative about Canadian energy” isn’t the worst investment ever made, or even the worst

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David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Dec 12, 2020

Thammavongsa and Obama remain at the top of Alberta independent bookshops’ bestseller lists

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Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. The lists are compiled by the Book Publishers Association of

David Climenhaga

Canadian Politics

Dec 21, 2020

Leo Panitch, intellectual pillar of the Canadian left, dead at 75 of COVID-19

David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Dec 19, 2020

Sounds like Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to Pronounce Knife and Barack Obama’s A Promised Land are the holiday books of 2020

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 18, 2020

When is a rule not a rule? When a maskless minister from Alberta’s United Conservative Party is breaking it

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 17, 2020

Brace yourself, Alberta, Toyota’s plan to build electric cars with solid-state batteries sounds like the real thing

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 16, 2020

Tire-screeching reversal on COVID-19 vaccine timing shows Canada’s Conservatives can turn on a dime!

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 15, 2020

10 months in the life of Jason Kenney: from bitter foe of illegal protests to fierce defender of protesters’ rights, or something

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 14, 2020

New Zealand eyes reopening borders a crack while Calgary crowd protests ‘draconian’ COVID-19 restrictions

David Climenhaga

Alberta Politics

Dec 12, 2020

Pretty much a dud, but still alive, Alberta’s ‘Energy War Room’ stumbles along after a year

David Climenhaga

Bestsellers

Dec 12, 2020

Thammavongsa and Obama remain at the top of Alberta independent bookshops’ bestseller lists

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