Top 10 Orchard Articles of 2024

Based on traffic, likes and subscriptions.

Dec 29, 2024

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

Jeremy Appel

January 19, 2024

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.”

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Likes: 18

Subscriptions: 65 (10 paid, 55 free)

All Tuckered Out in Edmonton

Jeremy Appel

January 25, 2024

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.

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Likes: 38

Subscriptions: 22 (all free)

It's the extremists' party, Danielle Smith is just leading it

Jeremy Appel

November 3, 2024

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.

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Likes: 39

Subscriptions: 9 (all free)

Alberta's Choice

Jeremy Appel

July 27, 2024

Jasper is in ruins.

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Likes: 26

Subscriptions: 26 (2 paid, 24 free)

Danielle Smith wants to believe

Jeremy Appel

September 30, 2024

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.

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Likes: 30

Subscriptions: 15 (all free)

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Edmonton city councillor Sarah Hamilton skipped out on council meeting to headline UCP fundraiser

Jeremy Appel

March 19, 2024

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.

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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

Jeremy Appel

December 6, 2024

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 …

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Likes: 30

Subscriptions: 10 (2 paid, 8 free)

Take Back Alberta seeks to overthrow Cochrane town council

Jeremy Appel

January 13, 2024

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…

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Likes: 6

Subscriptions: 13 (all free)

Freeland pledges to remove Russian oil from global markets, boosting Canadian bitumen as a replacement

Jeremy Appel

November 9, 2024

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…

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Likes: 17

Subscriptions: 5 (all free)