Top 10 Orchard Articles of 2024
Based on traffic, likes and subscriptions.
This year has been a productive one over at Orchard HQ.
While I’ve already compiled a list of 10 stories I broke, here’s a list of the top 10 articles of the year by traffic, likes and subscriptions generated in descending order.
Take Back Alberta refusing to co-operate with Elections Alberta investigation
Take Back Alberta (TBA) founder David Parker is refusing to cooperate with an Elections Alberta probe into his organization’s activities until the government agency is purged of all its employees, he told supporters at a Jan. 18 “emergency meeting.”
Views: 13,148
Likes: 18
Subscriptions: 65 (10 paid, 55 free)
All Tuckered Out in Edmonton
I arrived early to Tucker Carlson’s speaking engagement at Rogers Place in Edmonton alongside my compadre Danielle Paradis, a fellow journalist and masochist, to do some people watching while taking in the scenery.
Views: 5,869
Likes: 38
Subscriptions: 22 (all free)
It's the extremists' party, Danielle Smith is just leading it
Perhaps the least interesting part of the United Conservative Party annual general meeting was Premier Danielle Smith cruising to 91.5% support in her leadership review on Nov. 2 in Red Deer.
Views: 5,142
Likes: 39
Subscriptions: 9 (all free)
Views: 6,380
Likes: 26
Subscriptions: 26 (2 paid, 24 free)
Danielle Smith wants to believe
On Sept. 28, Edmonton-based journalist Katie Teeling wrote a detailed Twitter thread of a local town hall with Premier Danielle Smith and 500 members of the ruling United Conservative Party.
Views: 5,717
Likes: 30
Subscriptions: 15 (all free)
Edmonton city councillor Sarah Hamilton skipped out on council meeting to headline UCP fundraiser
Tl;dr Edmonton city councillor Sarah Hamilton left a March 13 council meeting to attend a partisan “Politics & Prosecco” UCP fundraiser for International Women’s Day attended by Premier Danielle Smith.
Views: 5,939
Likes: 13
Subscriptions: 9 (2 paid, 7 free)
U of A security called pro-Palestine encampment "extremely peaceful" a day before police tore it down
Tl;dr Internal emails obtained through FOIP show that University of Alberta campus security repeatedly referred …
Views: 4,053
Likes: 30
Subscriptions: 10 (2 paid, 8 free)
Take Back Alberta seeks to overthrow Cochrane town council
Take Back Alberta (TBA), the insurgent anti-vaccine and anti-2SLGBTQ+ group with close ties to Premier Danielle Smith, is involved in efforts to take down the Town of Cochrane’s elected municipal government as part of its broader effort to get likeminded ideologues…
Views: 5,985
Likes: 6
Subscriptions: 13 (all free)
Freeland pledges to remove Russian oil from global markets, boosting Canadian bitumen as a replacement
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced a new policy with great ramifications for Canadian foreign and climate policy when she spoke at the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Albert…
Views: 4,749
Likes: 17
Subscriptions: 5 (all free)
University Encampments and the Conditions of State Violence
The militarized suppression of pro-Palestine encampments at Alberta’s two largest universities, cheered on by Premier Danielle Smith, reveals …
Views: 4,376
Likes: 19
Subscriptions: 17 (2 paid, 15 free)