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This is a conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities.
The Houthis of Yemen would have us believe their attacks on ships in the vital Red Sea shipping lanes are an act of solidarity with Palestinians, who they call their “steadfast brothers in Gaza.”
Edmund Fitton-Brown, former U.K. ambassador to Yemen, is having none of it. “This is not a liberation movement,” he counters, calling the group that controls much of Yemen, including its capital, “feckless thugs.”
It’s a ruse. He should...
February 18, 2024 - 06:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
This is a conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities. This week: political strategist Stephen Carter.
With the NDP and incumbent United Conservative Party in a dead heat for votes in Alberta, I decided to talk to someone who is masterful in the dark art of political theatre and how the provincial election might play out this month.
Stephen Carter, 53, is the strategist who guided Danielle Smith for a short spell, when she was leader of the Wildrose Alliance Party; got Alison Redford...
May 14, 2023 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
This is a conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities. This week: oilpatch sage John Young.
The Ring of Fire region in northern Ontario is one lynchpin in America’s green energy moonshot. Unearthing mineral deposits more than 500 kilometres north of Thunder Bay is essential to Ontario’s future as an electric vehicle manufacturing hub. But what happens if some local First Nations want nothing to do with mining critical minerals?
In western Canada, we’ve struggled at times to develop...
April 16, 2023 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
This is a new conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities. This week: Tibetan-Canadian engineer/activist Nima Dorjee.
From what I can tell, China has done a superb job intimidating emigres in Canada.
Nobody I reached out to in the Alberta business or research community wants to talk about intimidation by Beijing — on the record — except for one. He’s Nima Dorjee, a Tibetan-Canadian who has been raising the alarm bells for decades now on China’s interference. He has an axe to grind, or...
April 9, 2023 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
This is a new conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities. This week: powerhouse oilpatch pioneer Dick Haskayne.
For anyone who wants to understand the DNA of Alberta’s oil-patch fraternity, 88-year-old Dick Haskayne is your guy.
The list of blue-chip companies he presided over, either as president or board chair, includes Hudson’s Bay Oil and Gas, Home Oil, Interhome Energy, TransAlta Corporation, MacMillan Bloedel, TransCanada Pipelines (now TC Energy), NOVA Corporation and Fording Inc...
March 26, 2023 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
This is a new conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities. This week: AI rock star Rich Sutton.
What should one make of Rich Sutton? He’s a rock star in AI (artificial intelligence), and a geek to meet.
In 2017, he partnered with Google’s DeepMind project, opening its “first ever international AI research office” in Edmonton, in collaboration with the University of Alberta.
AI machine learning occupies a lot of bandwidth in the news cycle. With all the hype, it’s easy to overlook Google...
March 19, 2023 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
