ICYMI: September 17-23
What I produced and consumed this week.
Chiefs from Treaties 6, 7 and 8 territories oppose Métis Nation self-governance bill
The day before the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA) announced Andrea Sandmaier was elected its first president under the Otipemisiwak self-governance framework, First Nations in Alberta joined a chorus of voices saying the new MNA governance structure was foisted upon them without consultation.
A quarter of Alberta MLAs moonlight as landlords
A new database from online news site The Maple identifies which provincial legislators are investing in real estate as housing becomes increasingly unaffordable across Canada, calling into question their ability, or willingness, to impleme…
For the Progress Report, I wrote about Gary Kalnychuk, who donated more than $20,000 to the UCP, its Wildrose forerunner and the federal Conservatives, before being appointed to the University of Alberta senate by former advanced education minister Demetrios Nicolaides. He’s said said his goal as a senator is to “reverse the liberal indoctrination” at U of A and called striking faculty at Concordia University of Edmonton “entitled spoiled brats.”
Green Majority Radio had me on to talk about last week’s Carbon Capture Canada conference in Edmonton and the false promise of carbon capture, utilization and storage technology.
What I’ve been reading
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