Braid: Council craziness, and hints of an Edmonton Olympic rescue
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Varcoe: 'As a Canadian, it sickens me' โ frustrated oilpatch eyes less spending as discount ...
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Keith Gerein: Oil price crisis a 'real and present danger' to NDP's survival
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Opinion: Alberta needs a better way to fix our roads
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Varcoe: Alberta can't have oil 'racing out of the ground at $10 a barrel,' says ...
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David Staples: Downtown residents upset about more crime and disorder
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Opinion Christie Blatchford: I'm sorry, did I offend you?
A law student filed a complaint about a homicide detective who had spoken to her law class and, o the shame!, allegedly said 'inappropriate' things -
Columnists Opinion: Forcing Church out of medicine will worsen palliative care
“We are talking about a fundamental human right.” This is ethicist Arthur Schafer’s conclusion about Doreen Nowicki’s attempt to end her life with physician assistance at a facility operated by Covenant Health, Alberta’s Catholic health-care provider. -
Columnists Opinion: The Democrats exceeded expectations in U.S. midterms
They were not finished counting the ballots in the eastern United States — and the polls were not even closed in the west — when the canard begin to take flight that the Democrats had blown the midterm elections. -
Energy David Staples: Krause leads fight against Americans who have landlocked the oil sands
It’s not often that powerful American interests are completely open about their success at thwarting a foreign economy, but that’s what happened a year ago when Michael Marx talked up his achievements. -
Local News Watch: Vivian Krause crusading against landlocking Alberta oil
Vivian Krause is raising the alarm to an American movement to keep Alberta oil from international markets. -
Local News Elise Stolte: Amazing what hope can do. Lubicon Lake persistence ends a dark chapter for ...
It’s true — the Lubicon Cree really have rallied behind a new chief to end Alberta’s most contentious land claim. -
Columnists Opinion: Sherwood Park blast shows online hate is selective
In the last few days, I have been thinking about an old folk tale from the 13th century Turkish satirical mullah Nasruddin, about the apocryphal “wise fool,” Hodja. -
Columnists Opinion: The First Nations are the first entrepreneurs
As soon as a natural resource development project gets underway, an outcry can be expected from environmental activists and First Nations members.
This Week's Flyers
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Columnists Opinion: Ban on abusive doctors would help survivors trust again
When a person is ill or injured, their primary concern should be healing. They shouldn’t have to worry about whether they’ll be sexually abused by their health provider while they’re receiving care. -
Columnists Nick Lees: Time is now to support $15-million campaign to build Edmonton hospice facility
The number of Albertans dying each year will double over the next 10 to 20 years, said Dr. Donna A. Wilson, a University of Alberta faculty of nursing professor and researcher. -
Energy Varcoe: Keystone XL joins Trans Mountain stuck in pipeline quagmire after new setback
Stop me if you’ve heard this before. A judge puts the brakes on a vitally important piece of energy infrastructure for the oilpatch, Alberta and Canada. -
Columnists Opinion: On Nov. 11, remember the fallen but also these things
As we near the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, we might take time to ask: What is it that we remember on Remembrance Day? The typical Remembrance Day ceremony takes place around a cenotaph and includes state officials (politicians and military officers), ecumenical religious figures, and often the mother, father, or spouse of a lost soldier; sometimes, too, a soldier scarred in conflict, though the injury must be obvious: hidden injuries are insufficiently illustrative for the occasion. -
Politics Keith Gerein: Crusading MLA Robyn Luff presents no-win scenario for Notley
A week ago, few people knew her name. Today, is the talk of Alberta politics, particularly in NDP circles. -
Columnists David Staples: Did the Earth move for you? Irene Cheng's team can measure it from ...
The breathtaking change in computer science can be seen in the shifting focus of University of Alberta computer scientist Irene Cheng over her career. -
Columnists Opinion: Lessons in global cooperation from the Spanish Flu, 100 years later
This month, Canadians will mark 100 years since the end of the First World War – a grim anniversary not just because of the lives lost, but because of lessons that went unlearned before we fell into the Second World War. -
Letters Friday's letters: Three costly public-sector gaffes
Not an uplifting Journal read Tuesday. Three articles in particular stand out. Our retired governors general, and one in particular, believe they are fully entitled to their entitlements through a cloaked accounting/budgetary process regardless of the negative optics perceived by the rest of taxpaying Canadians. -
Columnists Opinion: Tuition freeze won't leave institutions in the cold
A recent Edmonton Journal editorial was right when it said the Alberta NDP is committed to students. By freezing tuition and indexing future increases to the consumer price index, we hope to take the guesswork out of the biggest investment of their lives. -
Columnists Opinion: U.S. mid-terms just returned democracy to America
Call it a wave, tidal or rogue. Call it a riptide, an undertow or a cross current. Deny it, defy it or dismiss it, there is a simple truth to the outcome of Tuesday’s U.