Does President Trump have an agenda?
It is hard to get your mind around this one. There was an opinion piece in a major Canadian newspaper by a political science professor who posited that President Donald…
February 2017
More cuts. Some questions. #nlpoli
Flatter, Leaner Management Structure. Put it all in caps like that and you have a handy acronym that bureaucrats can type over and over again without getting tired. It’s like…
More cuts. Some questions. #nlpoli
Flatter, Leaner Management Structure. Put it all in caps like that and you have a handy acronym that bureaucrats can type over and over again without getting tired. It’s like…
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Two polls and three by-elections signal an interesting spell in Alberta politics ahead
PHOTOS: No love lost for pipelines in B.C. – and all of a sudden that could have an impact on politics in Alberta (Rabble.ca photo). Below: Mainstreet research President Quito…
Encountering Riel by David Orr tops Audreys Books’ Edmonton Best-Selling Books List
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ending Feb. 19, 2017, compiled on Feb. 21, 2017, by Audreys Books…
David D. Orr’s ‘Encountering Riel’ is this week’s Edmonton fiction bestseller, Audreys Books reports
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Feb. 17, 2017, compiled on Feb. 21, 2017, by Audreys Books…
WINTER CAREGIVER ACHES AND PAINS
I live where the temperature can sometimes dip down to sub-zero numbers. Snow and slush make pushing our son in his wheelchair difficult and my Mom needs support to navigate…
You Can’t Blame It All on Trump & Company.
Foreign Policy editor, David Rothkopf, explores America’s “shallow government” and the role ordinary Americans, Trump supporters, play in empowering it. The shallow state is in many respects the antithesis of…
WINTER CAREGIVER ACHES AND PAINS
I live where the temperature can sometimes dip down to sub-zero numbers. Snow and slush make pushing our son in his wheelchair difficult and my Mom needs support to navigate…
Feb. 22: The American Empire: Decline and Fall.
Several days ago, the irving press ran a big story that a report from Amnesty International had accused Syria of the torture and murder of 13,000 Syrians. it was a…
Feb. 22: The American Empire: Decline and Fall.
Several days ago, the irving press ran a big story that a report from Amnesty International had accused Syria of the torture and murder of 13,000 Syrians. it was a…
Trumpery* and Trumpism** are Coming to Alberta’s Politics.
Gary Mason has some sobering and significant reflections on the rise of Alberta’s own version of the alt-right…a.k.a. bigots, misogynists, and racists. We are seeing these people being emboldened and…
Trumpery* and Trumpism** are Coming to Alberta’s Politics.
Gary Mason has some sobering and significant reflections on the rise of Alberta’s own version of the alt-right…a.k.a. bigots, misogynists, and racists. We are seeing these people being emboldened and…
We Need to Admit the Limitations of Science When it Comes to Pipeline Decisions
With federal decisions on major oil pipeline and tanker projects in the headlines, many suggest our elected officials should lean more on science to make these kinds of decisions. Those…
aswan sights
We were very tentative about breakfast this morning, in a kind of truce with our stomachs. Breakfast here is an elaborate buffet — the usual yogurt, honey, and bread, several…
Journalism After Snowden
My edited book for Columbia University Press with Emily Bell, Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State, on journalism and state surveillance has recently…
We Need to Admit the Limitations of Science When it Comes to Pipeline Decisions
With federal decisions on major oil pipeline and tanker projects in the headlines, many suggest our elected officials should lean more on science to make these kinds of decisions. Those…
It’s time to reform the CBC for the digital age
The oped below was written after the publishing of The Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age, on which i served as a research principal. I have…
Report on state of Canadian journalism
For the past year I have had the fortune to work with Ed Greenspon, the Public Policy Forum, and a wonderful group of scholars and journalists on a report on…