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Jeremy Appel

Jun 16, 2024

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Police watchdog absolves Calgary cops of killing a Black man in distress

Jeremy Appel

Jun 15

Police watchdog absolves Calgary cops of killing a Black man in distress

Alberta’s police watchdog has released its findings into the Calgary Police Service’s February 2022 killing of Lajtor Tuel, a South Sudanese refugee in mental distress who had allegedly assaulted someone with a metal walking stick. In a June 14 report

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Top 5 Canadian Energy Centre Mishaps

Jeremy Appel

Jun 12

It’s the end of the Canadian Energy Centre (CEC) as we know it, an Alberta Energy spokesperson confirmed to Global News on June 11. The “important work” of the multimillion-dollar trolling effort,…

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I went on The Maple’s Expats and Allies podcast to discuss the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta’s $1.4-million Nazi donor problem.

Scott Martin of The Catch joined us on Big Shiny Takes to discuss a Joe Warmington column about how communism is alive an well in … Oakville, Ont.

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