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May. 23, 2012 / 865: Road Trips
A national priority
Samantha Power
This week the Quebec student strike celebrated 100 days with over 200 000, some estimates putting it closer to 400 000, people out on the streets of Montréal. And yet… Read more »
May. 16, 2012 / 865: Road Trips
A job’s a job
Samantha Power
This week federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty declared in the House, "There is no bad job. The only bad job is not having a job." It had more… Read more »
May. 02, 2012 / 863: Cold Specks
Get home safe
Samantha Power
Getting home safely at night is not an easy task. After staying late at work or spending the night out with friends, the options to get home safely… Read more »
Apr. 25, 2012 / 862: The Real Deal
Change we’re looking for
Samantha Power
The Wildrose had Albertans voting scared. The party drove home the fear of being governed by the intolerant and ignorant. And that fear succeeded in guaranteeing the reelection… Read more »
Apr. 12, 2012 / 860: Beowulf
Flawed interview
Samantha Power
The only televised leadership debate of the provincial election is happening on April 12. Did you miss it? So did some of the leaders of provincial parties in… Read more »
Apr. 04, 2012 / 859: Spring Style
Up is down
Samantha Power
Spending versus revenue is often painted as the bottom-line difference between left and right ideologies. Fiscal conservatives are going to save you money and those left-leaning socialists are… Read more »
Mar. 30, 2012 / 858: Norwegian Wood
New leadership
Mimi Williams
Following a seven-month campaign many described as boring, it might have made for better political drama had Thomas Mulcair lost the federal NDP leadership last weekend. First elected… Read more »
Mar. 21, 2012 / 857: Ben Folds
Who’s protesting
Samantha Power
The words we use have meaning. George Orwell stated political prose was formed “to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity… Read more »
Mar. 15, 2012 / 856: FAVA
The new business of art
Paul Blinov
Edmonton's Catalyst Theatre wasn't expecting to be the final show for the Vancouver Playhouse when it began its run of Hunchback a few weeks ago. But that's exactly… Read more »
Feb. 22, 2012 / 853: Folkways
Beyond panic
Samantha Power
A national panic has been created by Prime Minister Stephen Harper about his mysterious Old Age Security reforms. Harper’s surprise announcement a few weeks ago set off a… Read more »
