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ICYMI: May 14-20

This week in The Orchard and more.

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Jeremy Appel
May 21, 2023
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I decided to try something new and provide a weekly rundown of what I’ve published this week, and the articles I’ve been reading that I didn’t have a chance to discuss in this week’s newsletters.

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Mohammed el-Kurd receives Calgary Peace Prize
Palestinian journalist, poet and activist Mohammed el-Kurd received the Calgary Peace Prize on May 18 from the Consortium for Peace Studies at an online event featuring a panel discussio…
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3 years ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Jeremy Appel
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Alberta NDP, UCP and Greens face off in Spruce Grove-Stony Plain
All Alberta politics obsessive eyes will be on the big May 18 leaders debate, where Rachel Notley and Danielle Smith will no doubt deliver their pre-packaged zingers to an audience that has largely already made up its mind whom to vote for. Local candidate forums, by contrast, provide an opportunity to hear candidates go off script and speak directly to what they think their constituents want to hear, in addition to the presence of smaller parties whose leaders won’t make it to the big stage with Smith and Notley…
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3 years ago · 4 likes · 2 comments · Jeremy Appel
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With Alberta on fire, Jason Kenney’s rage-driven politics still haunt us
Alberta’s 2023 provincial election campaign is underway, under the backdrop of raging wildfires that have displaced thousands from rural areas across the province. Debate about the climate crisis, which has fuelled the wildfires’ severity, has been mostly absent from the campaign tr…
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3 years ago · 11 likes · 2 comments · Jeremy Appel
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