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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.
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
This is a conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities. This week: former Alberta premier, Ed Stelmach.
Scroll back to the first week of March. In a single week, a record-setting 10,000 Ukrainians board airplanes heading to Canada to escape a brutal war that has no end in sight. And this surge of evacuees is expected to continue until the end of the month. After that; who knows.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, more than two years ago, 250,000 Ukrainians relocated to Canada under our...
March 24, 2024 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
“It’s not justifiable that our American counterparts — flying the same airplanes, same airspace, same routes — that they’re making twice as much as us, if not more,” declares Charlene Hudy, first officer on the 737 Max and chair of the Air Canada pilots union.
For the past seven months, Hudy, 41, has been hammering this message at the negotiating table with Air Canada, demanding parity with American counterparts on behalf of the nearly 5,300 pilots on Air Canada’s roster. A decade ago, pilot salaries at Air Canada and United Airlines were nearly equal; today, the Americans earn twice...
March 9, 2024 - 07:00 | 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.
The Houthis of Yemen would have us believe their attacks on ships in the vital Red Sea shipping lanes are an act of solidarity with Palestinians, who they call their “steadfast brothers in Gaza.”
Edmund Fitton-Brown, former U.K. ambassador to Yemen, is having none of it. “This is not a liberation movement,” he counters, calling the group that controls much of Yemen, including its capital, “feckless thugs.”
It’s a ruse. He should...
February 18, 2024 - 06:00 | 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. This week: political strategist Stephen Carter.
With the NDP and incumbent United Conservative Party in a dead heat for votes in Alberta, I decided to talk to someone who is masterful in the dark art of political theatre and how the provincial election might play out this month.
Stephen Carter, 53, is the strategist who guided Danielle Smith for a short spell, when she was leader of the Wildrose Alliance Party; got Alison Redford...
May 14, 2023 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
