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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: 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
Ian Tyson was his friend and mentor.
“Ian literally has a song with the lyrics, ‘When I die, let me go naturally’ and ‘don’t let them put no tubes in me,’ Corb Lund grins, “and he got his wish.”
It’s the day after the
passing of 89-year-old country music icon
Ian Tyson and I’m at a bar in...
January 8, 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: entrepreneurs Simon Jackson and Jill Cooper.
They prefer to live downtown.
But after five years of trying to make a home in Calgary’s urban core, Simon Jackson and Jill Cooper — two 40-year-old entrepreneurs — have decamped to the suburbs where they stare out their apartment window at a strip mall.
These young people have lived inner-city for decades, in Vancouver and Toronto, far more intimidating places, but...
January 1, 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: MP and provocateur Michelle Rempel Garner.
She likes her meat raw.
It wasn’t always that way for Michelle Rempel Garner. An Alberta girl who grew into politics, well-done didn’t matter when she was a young rising star and her looks could kill. Now, she’s a voice for “Gen X, the in-charge generation,” she declares, plunging the steak knife into the heart of the strip loin on her plate.
I’m one of those Baby Boomers,...
December 25, 2022 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
First in a new conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities. Up first: Brendan Myers Miller, lead lawyer for the Freedom Convoy at recent Emergencies Act hearings.
He’s in Disney World.
When I catch up with Brendan Myers Miller — after his brawling stint in Ottawa as lead counsel on the team of lawyers representing the truckers at the formal inquisition of our country’s highest-ranking politicians and their decision to use the Emergencies Act — he’s just landed at the Magic Kingdom with...
December 18, 2022 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
