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John Woodside, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter As a federal election kicks off, the trade war with the U.S. is casting a long shadow over voters’ choices, and whoever forms the next government will have the tall order of trying to draw this conflict to a close. “President Trump wants to break us so America can…
Isabel Buckmaster, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For the past several months, University of Guelph geography professor Eric Nost has been working with the Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI) to preserve climate change and other data sets being removed by the Trump administration. Undergoing a similar series of data rescue events the first time Donald Trump…
Matteo Cimellaro, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s visit to Trump’s imperial court at Mar-a-Lago hearkens back to the history of empires. It recalls historical posturing and diplomacy that appeased King Louis XIV at Versailles or the Caesars of Rome. That comparison rings true for Fen Hampson, a political science professor at Carleton…
George Lee Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A barely touched hamburger and fries at his side, Naheed Nenshi had completed six year-end interviews back-to-back at the Citadel Theatre in downtown Edmonton. It was the day after the final 2024 sitting of the Alberta legislature, and thieves had smashed through a window to get into his car….
Alberta’s rural heartland will continue to inform the UCP agenda in 2025, Premier Danielle Smith said in a year-end interview aimed at audiences beyond Calgary and Edmonton. Health care, public safety and housing for seniors are among the issues that small-town, small-city, and countryside Alberta can expect continued progress on, she told George Lee, Local…