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Top 5 Orchardcast Episodes of 2024

Top 10 Orchard Articles of 2024

Some Good News and Some Bad News

ICYMI: Dec. 16-22

Dr. Tarek Loubani

Energy regulator hails oil sands' increased freshwater consumption as "significant progress"

Chrystia Freeland's Neoconservative Foreign Policy Record

ICYMI: Dec. 9-15

Memorial to Victims of Communism opens without any names on its remembrance wall

‘A Crushing Disappointment’: Trudeau’s Climate Legacy

Indigenous environmental activists offer counter-programming to industry-funded tar sands tailings conference

10 Stories the Orchard Broke in 2024

ICYMI: Dec. 2-8

Leaving Canadaland

U of A security called pro-Palestine encampment "extremely peaceful" a day before police tore it down

ICYMI: Nov. 25 - Dec. 1

What went wrong at COP29?

Trudeau's Decade of Promise and Contradiction

Media ignores Halifax International Security Forum's defence industry funding

ICYMI: Nov. 18-24

Global Affairs Canada unaware of Freeland's plan to rid global market of Russian oil

The UCP's Assault on Trans Rights in Alberta

ICYMI: Nov. 11-17

Fire Weather author sounds alarm on Alberta's fossil fuel addiction

Making Sense of the 2024 U.S. Election

ICYMI: Nov. 4-10

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

Why Chrystia Freeland's Nazi Grandfather Matters

What I Would Have Asked Minister of Energy Jonathan Wilkinson

Canada’s special interlocutor calls for reparations and accountability in final report on unmarked graves

ICYMI: Oct. 28 - Nov. 3

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

Danielle Smith fuses far-right appeal with mainstream caution at UCP AGM

An Open Letter in Defence of David Pugliese

ICYMI: Oct. 20-27

What is Samidoun?

10 UCP AGM Policy Resolutions to Keep an Eye On

ICYMI: Oct. 13-19

The Political Economy of American Football

ICYMI: Oct. 6-12

Canada's $7.5-million Nazi Monument

How media fuels authoritarian policies on mental health and addiction

ICYMI: Sept. 29 - Oct. 5

Danielle Smith wants to believe

ICYMI: Sept. 22-28

Cold Lake First Nations’ concerns about carbon storage hub are still unaddressed

In Red Deer, the Canada Strong and Free Network prepares for culture war

ICYMI: Sept. 15-21

What the hell is going on in B.C. politics?

My Substack Summer

Far-right influencers the biggest dupes of foreign interference

ICYMI: Sept. 8-14

The Rise and Fall of Canada's Social Safety Net

Illusory Optimism at Carbon Capture Canada

ICYMI: Sept. 2-7

How Israel Weaponizes the Holocaust

ICYMI: Aug. 25 - Sept. 1

ICYMI: Aug. 18-24

ICYMI: Aug. 4-10

Edmonton city councillor Sarah Hamilton didn't violate Code of Conduct when she headlined UCP fundraiser, integrity commissioner says

ICYMI: July 28 - Aug. 3

Talkin' Baseball

Ojibwe Star Wars premieres Aug. 8

ICYMI: July 21-27

Alberta's Choice

ICYMI: July 14-20

Lessons for Canada's Progressives from the French Elections

ICYMI: July 7-13

What Canadian Media Got Wrong About the Evacuation of Afghan Sikhs

Return of the Alberta Grizzly Hunt

Alberta Health Services cracks down on support for Palestine

ICYMI: June 30 - July 6

Should Trudeau Stay or Should He Go?

Western alienation and Alberta's unique political culture

ICYMI: June 23-29

Samira Mohyeddin

ICYMI: June 16-22

Shannon Phillips

ICYMI: June 9-15

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

Top 5 Canadian Energy Centre Mishaps

ICYMI: June 2-8

Nicemangos (a/k/a Eiynah)

Federal McKinsey contracts are a symptom of neoliberal decay

Few disagreements on display at final ANDP leadership debate

ICYMI: May 26 - June 1

Indigenous-led parliamentary petition asks feds for Parole Board reforms

Breaking Down Kenneyism

Report Shows Disproportionate Impact of Opioid Crisis on First Nations in Alberta

ICYMI: May 19-25

Canada's director of public prosecutions threatens to discipline employees, including students, who signed pro-Palestine letters

ICYMI: May 12-18

University Encampments and the Conditions of State Violence

ICYMI: May 5-11

Should Canada leave NATO?

How post-pandemic precarity altered the job landscape for Canadian women

ICYMI: April 28 - May 4

Lev Golinkin vs. the Whitewashers

My Afternoon with Ukrainian Nationalists in Edmonton

“That little glimmer of hope there just flies away”

ICYMI: April 21-27

Supporters of public education need to mobilize against destructive forces

Lawyers' association files complaint against Calgary police traffic ticket quota

ICYMI: April 14-20

A closer look at Danielle Smith’s taxpayer-funded ‘greenwashing tour’

ICYMI: April 7-13

Shree Paradkar

Candidates stick to their talking points at Edmonton NDP leadership meet-and-greet

ICYMI: March 31 - April 6

Indigenous Ecuadorians warn against Canada-Ecuador free trade pact

ICYMI: March 24-30

ICYMI: March 17-23

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

ICYMI: March 10-16

The Labyrinthine Nightmare of Canada's Palestinian Family Reunification Program

ICYMI: March 3-9

There may have been some light voter fraud in the 2017 UCP leadership race

What I heard (and didn't hear) at a talk about global religious persecution with Conservative MP Garnett Genuis

ICYMI: Feb. 25 - March 2

Is your Alberta MLA a landlord?

ICYMI: Feb. 18-24

In Alberta, there’s no limit to how much a landlord can raise your rent

ICYMI: Feb. 11-17

ICYMI: Feb. 4-10

Kenneyism Book Launch

ICYMI: Jan. 28 - Feb. 3

Kenneyism up close and angry

Press freedom advocates call for Edmonton police to drop charges against journalist Brandi Morin

ICYMI: Jan. 21-27

All Tuckered Out in Edmonton

ICYMI: Jan. 14-20

Take Back Alberta refusing to co-operate with Elections Alberta investigation

Federal scab ban a moment of truth for NDP-Liberal confidence agreement

ICYMI: Jan. 7-13

Take Back Alberta seeks to overthrow Cochrane town council

ICYMI: Dec. 31 - Jan. 6

‘Tyranny of the rainbow guard:’ Inside the anti-2SLGBTQ+ movement’s efforts to take over Alberta school boards