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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.
Lt.-Gen. (ret’d) Andrew Leslie is keen to talk about the embarrassing state of Canadian military preparedness.
“The current prime minister of Canada is not serious about defence. Full stop. A large number of his cabinet members are not serious about defence. Full stop,” the former Liberal MP tells me.
“Our NATO allies are despairing. Our American friends are frustrated.
“But because NATO and Norad (North American Aerospace Defense...
May 12, 2024 - 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.
More than a million people of Polish descent live in Canada. In the rural community where I grew up in southwestern Ontario, there was a Polish hall where I was sometimes recruited to serve up cabbage rolls and pierogis.
Back then, that Polish cohort didn’t stand out from the rest of their European peers — the Belgians, the Germans, the Hungarians. Today, Poland’s role in assisting Ukraine has been a game-changer; the country shares a...
May 5, 2024 - 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.
Albertans are in the dark about what’s going on.
Early this month, Albertans were jolted by electricity grid alerts and rolling blackouts. In a province endowed with such vast energy resources, both renewable and non-renewable, grid failure seems inexplicable especially given the balmy, spring weather.
“We’ve built the system completely backward,” was the blunt assessment of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Alberta’s electrical...
April 28, 2024 - 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.
Jyoti Gondek has 18 months remaining in her first and perhaps only term as Calgary’s mayor. Elected in October 2021, during the COVID pandemic, the mayor’s approval ratings sank quickly and she’s had a rough ride ever since. People are being mean to her, which is not OK, but Calgarians kind of let her frame herself as a hapless victim dragged into a partisan arena.
I sat down with her recently at city hall to unpack how it’s all gone...
April 21, 2024 - 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.
Festival after festival across Canada is heading to the edge of the fiscal cliff. Edmonton’s Fringe Festival and Toronto’s Hot Docs report massive deficits and dire straits ahead without an infusion of funds. Just for Laughs has been forced to cancel festivals in Toronto and Montreal. In a post-pandemic world, festivals are vulnerable; many find themselves precariously caught in the financial squeeze of spiralling inflation and reduced...
April 14, 2024 - 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.
Why were we not surprised that teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva was caught doping and finally stripped of a gold medal awarded to her at the Winter Olympics in Beijing two years ago?
Valieva is Russian. Prior to the competition, Russian athletes were officially banned from competing by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). No matter. She competed in Beijing as an independent athlete.
Imagine — getting to the Winter Olympics,...
March 31, 2024 - 08:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
