Unpublished Newswire
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
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
