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The Narwhal Is Suing the RCMP. Stakes Are High for Journalism
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A UCP Energy Insider’s Warnings for Alberta
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Inside One Family’s Struggle to Keep Their Teen Safe
After he was stabbed, his relatives say, the system failed to stop his bullying.
BC Assessment Changes Website After Privacy Failure
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Sirish Rao Is a Creative Force
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The Glorious Warmth of ‘Heated Rivalry’
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The Extraordinary Life of Seymour Hersh
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Homeowners Left on Their Own to Deal with Deadly Gas
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How ‘Lazy’ Rattlesnakes Live Well After Wildfires
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Burnaby Public Library Will Reverse DEI Group Cuts
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Comes to the Chan Centre
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Sirish Rao Is a Creative Force
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The Extraordinary Life of Seymour Hersh
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The Glorious Warmth of ‘Heated Rivalry’
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Do You Write Your Name In Books?
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Comes to the Chan Centre
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Old but Full of Energy: Giving EV Batteries a Second Life
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Chance of privately developed pipeline almost ‘zero’ if no government backstop: former Alberta energy minister
(via CBC)
Think society is in decline? Research gives us some reasons for optimism
(via Study Finds)
Conservatives to debate policies including abortion, DEI and MAID at Calgary convention
(via CBC)
'Creeper Hunter' lashes out at makers of documentary about him
(via London Free Press)
American man extradited to Canada decades after brutal slaying of senior citizen at northern BC rest stop
(via CBC)
‘We just sit and cry’: Gaza’s cancer patients die waiting for treatment
(via Al Jazeera)
Thrift store. Clinic. Roller rink. Centre becomes ‘radical’ lifeline amid homelessness, drug crises
(via KFF Health News)
‘This is not the fix’: Ambulance crash near Tumbler Ridge, BC, raises frustrations about emergency care
(via CBC)
Northern MLA Sheldon Clare says he is running for BC Conservative leadership
(via CTV News)
Old-growth logging protesters could be prosecuted criminally, judge rules
(via Times Colonist)
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“Elbows up is not the best option in dealing with Trump on tariffs. Sounds good but is not effective when dealing with the elephant in the room. Evidence of that is Trump’s current rant and the 10 per cent threat.
“To ‘stick’ with the hockey metaphor, I think Carney is playing it smart. Stick handling rather than elbows up is a better approach in dealing with the Trump dynasty that will, as time goes by, lose the game of public opinion in the U.S. As has been stated before, ‘No deal is better than a bad deal.’ Human instinct to deal abruptly with discomfort will at times fail to produce the desired outcome.”