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International cooperation in the age of Trump

January 31, 2017

| Dr. Hugh Sealy, one of the lead negotiators for the small island states, is our guest to talk about international climate cooperation in the age of Trump.

Length: 53:11 minutes (48.7 MB)

Canada's right doubtless dismayed as The Economist boots the U.S.A. off its list of 'full democracies'

David J. Climenhaga

| January 26, 2017

Hmmm… The venerable Economist magazine's research arm yesterday booted the United States off its list of "full democracies," demoting Ronald Reagan's "shining city on a hill" to a mere "flawed democracy."

This happened in the wake of the election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States. However, the impeccably right-wing British magazine's Economist Intelligence Unit generously concluded, it was not because of it.

That is to say, the researchers for the pretentious news magazine for people who wish they were rich didn't blame the decline in American democracy on Trump. They blamed Trump on the decline in American democracy.

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Why Alberta MLA Sandra Jansen left the leadership race, and her party

December 1, 2016

| Calgary MLA Sandra Jansen crossed the floor to join the provincial NDP shortly after withdrawing from the Progressive Conservative leadership race. Duncan Kinney of Progress Alberta explains why.

Length: 12:53 minutes (11.8 MB)

Pipeline puts Alberta's Notley offside with other NDPers

Karl Nerenberg

| November 30, 2016

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Late Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister Trudeau and his government gave the green light to a pipeline that would carry heavy-oil through the most densely populated part of Western Canada.

Will Trudeau government's decision to phase out coal bring job losses and more nuclear?

Karl Nerenberg

| November 22, 2016

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On a day when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump took to YouTube to announce that one of his first acts as President will be to get rid of regulations on coal and shale gas, the Trudeau government announced its plan to almost completely phase out coal-powered electricity.

The Tiwana family has been running a motel in Bashaw, Alberta for decades. On October 12, racial slurs were found on their hotel and the hotel was burned to the ground in a suspicious fire. One person is dead and three are injured. In a matter of minutes the Tiwana family lost everything -- their home, their business, their belongings and unconfirmed reports say that the person who died is the father of the Tiwana household.

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Half measures aren't enough to save caribou

David Suzuki

| August 2, 2016

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Alberta is home to two of Canada's imperilled caribou populations: the southern mountain and boreal woodland herds. Both are threatened with extinction.

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Responding to economic critiques of the Leap Manifesto

May 11, 2016

| The Leap Manifesto has been called divisive, naïve and economically unsustainable. Christopher Majka says these critiques are rooted in a misunderstanding of what the Manifesto aims to do.

Length: 18:10 minutes (16.64 MB)

In the fight between Rachel Notley and the federal NDP, no one wins.

Gerry Caplan

| May 10, 2016

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Some old axioms offer insights. Take "Where you sit determines where you stand." It tells you everything you need to know about the federal NDP and its relationship with its cousins in the only NDP government in the country. And vice versa.

Could there be a new vision for a rebuilt Fort McMurray?

Karl Nerenberg

| May 6, 2016

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Early in his life, my late father, Norman Nerenberg, was a professional organizer for the National Federation of Labour Youth, the United Jewish People's Order and, ultimately, the Labour Progressive Party of Canada (LPP).

In September 1941, he volunteered for the Royal Canadian Air Force.

He was only 18, the minimum age.

The depression and the war radicalized many, and Norman was among them.

Alberta

International cooperation in the age of Trump

Why Alberta MLA Sandra Jansen left the leadership race, and her party

Suspicious fire in Alberta burns down a motel and kills at least one person

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Responding to economic critiques of the Leap Manifesto

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