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This story was originally published on Nov. 28, 2024, for the 35th anniversary of the massacre at École Polytechnique.
Statistics suggest as few as 20 per cent of Canada’s current residents were adults living in Canada on Dec. 6, 1989 — 35 years ago — when the country suffered a landmark injury.
That was the day 14 people were killed and another 14 injured by a gunman at École Polytechnique, a post-secondary engineering school in Montreal, in the so-called Montreal Massacre.
It became clear, sooner for some than others, that all of the dead and 10 of the injured were young women...
November 28, 2024 - 07:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
Remembrance Day, which is held every Nov. 11 to honour people who have served and are serving in the military, falls on a Tuesday this year. Here's a look at what's happening in Ottawa.
November 10, 2024 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
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
