For the third week in a row, Deborah Drever reigned as Alberta’s most talked-about NDP MLA. Or, more to the point, Alberta’s most talked-about former NDP MLA. The last straw. Drever finally shamed Rachel Notley to the point that she was kicked out of caucus, setting a possible world record
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In This Corner: ‘The Magnificient New Coliseum’ turns 40, and I was there.
I don’t know about you, but I know exactly what I was doing on the evening of Nov. 10th, 1974, exactly 40 years ago Monday. My ‘I was there’ certificate to the first Oiler game at Northlands Coliseum. I was at a hockey game. Not just any hockey game, mind
Continue readingIn This Corner: CFRN at 60: When TV really mattered.
Once upon a time, there was something called local TV. It was made up — quite literally — on the spot, live. Looking back on it today, it was probably pretty bad. But it was ours. In my early years growing up in Edmonton, there were two channels. One was
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