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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
This is a new conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities. This week: Luisa DaSilva of Iron+Earth.
I’d never heard of Luisa DaSilva or the organization she leads, Iron+Earth, and I suspect you haven’t either.
It’s a community-based non-profit launched in 2016, a particularly dire time in the Canadian hydrocarbons sector. Tens of thousands were tossed out of work. Fort McMurray — ground zero for the oilsands — was particularly hard hit. Iron+ Earth, now with Canada-wide reach, was founded...
January 29, 2023 - 08:00 | 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: Canadian restaurateur Chindi Varadarajulu.
CHENNAI, India — She’s a top-rated chef with no sense of smell.
Chindi Varadarajulu lost her ability to sniff out flavours over three decades ago, the outcome of a nasty flu she got shortly after emigrating from Singapore to Vancouver; an auspicious start on her way up the ladder in the restaurant business.
I’m sitting across from Chindi in a chic dining room, a restaurant...
January 22, 2023 - 07:00 | 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: Lapis Energy CEO Reg Manhas.
He has no regrets about moving from Alberta to Texas.
A decade ago, just as Canada’s oil patch was starting to get tense, Reg Manhas made a career move — to Texas, where the action is — and he hasn’t looked back. If you want to know what’s going down in the American oil patch, he’s your guy.
When I catch up to Reg, he has just been named CEO of Lapis Energy, a Dallas-based company that...
January 15, 2023 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
