ICYMI August 20-26

What I produced and consumed this week.

Jeremy Appel

Aug 27, 2023

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The Charlebois Shuffle

Jeremy Appel

Aug 25

I think I may have broken Sylvain “The Food Professor” Charlebois’ brain. In January, I wrote about a $60,000 grant the Dalhousie University academic received from the Weston Foundation in 2018, and how that might have played a role in his reflexive tendency to …

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Former Danielle Smith staffer hired by MaKami College to assist 'transition' from private to public institution

Jeremy Appel

Aug 23

Former Danielle Smith staffer hired by MaKami College to assist 'transition' from private to public institution

Erika Barootes, a former staffer for Premier Danielle Smith, has a new job with MaKami College, a for-profit vocational school the government added to the province’s list of publicly subsidi…

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No, Eritrean protestors didn't disrupt a world peace soccer tournament in Edmonton

Jeremy Appel

Aug 22

No, Eritrean protestors didn't disrupt a world peace soccer tournament in Edmonton

An Eritrean festival serving as a propaganda event for the east African country’s authoritarian government was shut down this weekend due to dissident-organized protests, but not before 80 Edmonton cops showed up at a soccer field in riot gear. But the notion that the protestors disrupted a soccer tournament “promoting world peace and an inclusive community,”

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