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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: Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich.
Trucker terrorist? Tamara Lich doesn’t come off like a rabble-rousing, seditious, mischief-maker.
A grandmother and fitness buff, she’s agreed to meet with me, driving north from her home in Medicine Hat to Calgary. “It’s been a year and two days and I still don’t know what I did, to commit mischief,” Tamara explains, on the heels of yet another round of virtual meetings between her...
February 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: oilpatch veteran Jim Reid.
Everyone knows that Alberta has thousands of no-longer-active wells, facilities and pipelines that need attention. I wanted to know more and came up with one man: Jim Reid, a retired rig hand in Edmonton who knows precisely what’s required to not only drill and operate wells, but to motivate industry to abandon infrastructure and reclaim sites.
Wearing a short-sleeved blue golf shirt on a warm...
February 19, 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: Luisa DaSilva of Iron+Earth.
I’d never heard of Luisa DaSilva or the organization she leads, Iron+Earth, and I suspect you haven’t either.
It’s a community-based non-profit launched in 2016, a particularly dire time in the Canadian hydrocarbons sector. Tens of thousands were tossed out of work. Fort McMurray — ground zero for the oilsands — was particularly hard hit. Iron+ Earth, now with Canada-wide reach, was founded...
January 29, 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: 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
