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Jeremy Appel

Dec 16, 2024

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Memorial to Victims of Communism opens without any names on its remembrance wall

Jeremy Appel

December 13, 2024

Memorial to Victims of Communism opens without any names on its remembrance wall

More than a decade after it was first proposed and $6 million over budget, Ottawa’s troubled Memorial to the Victims of Communism was officially inaugurated at a sparsely attended Dec. 12 ceremony,…

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‘A Crushing Disappointment’: Trudeau’s Climate Legacy

Jeremy Appel

December 12, 2024

‘A Crushing Disappointment’: Trudeau’s Climate Legacy

This story was originally published in the Maple.

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Indigenous environmental activists offer counter-programming to industry-funded tar sands tailings conference

Jeremy Appel

December 11, 2024

Indigenous environmental activists offer counter-programming to industry-funded tar sands tailings conference

On Dec. 9 and 10, the University of Alberta …

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10 Stories the Orchard Broke in 2024

Jeremy Appel

December 10, 2024

I really hate writing fundraising emails. As someone who’s financially precarious himself, I find it hard asking people for money.

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At Alberta Native News, I wrote about Alberta’s chief medical examiner backtracking from declaring the death of prominent Fort McMurray Métis entrepreneur and artist Lisa Marie Bourque a suicide. This came after Bourque’s family requested a fatality inquiry, leading one of her friends to allege a cover-up.

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