ICYMI: Dec. 9-15
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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,…
‘A Crushing Disappointment’: Trudeau’s Climate Legacy
This story was originally published in the Maple.
Indigenous environmental activists offer counter-programming to industry-funded tar sands tailings conference
On Dec. 9 and 10, the University of Alberta …
10 Stories the Orchard Broke in 2024
I really hate writing fundraising emails. As someone who’s financially precarious himself, I find it hard asking people for money.
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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