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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
Dishing with DKG: This is a new conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities. This week: military thinker David Harries.
Canada’s Northwest Passage soon will be open to year-round navigation. Russians are building nuclear-powered icebreakers for their north. Putin has partnered with the Chinese, who fancy themselves a “near Arctic” nation. Interest in the North is literally ballooning of late.
How prepared is Canada to defend our northern frontier?
“We’re naked,” declares David Harries,...
March 12, 2023 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
Dishing with DKG: This is a
new conversation series
by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities. This week: Former Edmonton mayor Don Iveson
Wasn’t the future wonderful?
Just yesterday, it seems, Alberta elected two young urban mayors — Don Iveson in Edmonton and Calgary’s Naheed Nenshi. They fancied themselves leaders of the New West. They were hip. And they were gifted with fresh ideas, they said, to make things better.
As it came to pass, some things got worse on their watch. In both cities, a gap-...
March 5, 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: Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich.
Trucker terrorist? Tamara Lich doesn’t come off like a rabble-rousing, seditious, mischief-maker.
A grandmother and fitness buff, she’s agreed to meet with me, driving north from her home in Medicine Hat to Calgary. “It’s been a year and two days and I still don’t know what I did, to commit mischief,” Tamara explains, on the heels of yet another round of virtual meetings between her...
February 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: oilpatch veteran Jim Reid.
Everyone knows that Alberta has thousands of no-longer-active wells, facilities and pipelines that need attention. I wanted to know more and came up with one man: Jim Reid, a retired rig hand in Edmonton who knows precisely what’s required to not only drill and operate wells, but to motivate industry to abandon infrastructure and reclaim sites.
Wearing a short-sleeved blue golf shirt on a warm...
February 19, 2023 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
