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Jason Markusoff

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Writer, editor, TV & radio talker, still on this app in spite of it all.
Calgary cbc.ca/news/canada/ca… Joined February 2010
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A Cree elder came to a museum one summer, asking to find where his brother was buried. Farmer showed up, too, with long-faded grave markers. Inside the long quest to remember the children of Red Deer residential school: macleans.ca/longforms/resi…
macleans.ca Finding David Lightning: The decades-long quest to locate an unmarked grave - Macleans.ca In 1987, a Cree Elder went looking for his brother’s final resting place. His quest is now a beacon in the search for residential school graves.
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Does UCP’s new boundary map make an NDP win impossible? No.
But it clearly skews southern Alberta seats toward Danielle Smith’s party.
New CBC election data analysis: cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
www.cbc.ca ANALYSIS | Alberta's new riding map skews Lethbridge, Banff, Calgary seats toward UCP, voter data... Danielle Smith's MLAs approved a panel's controversial boundary plan over NDP protests.
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43,500 Ukrainians in Alberta with non-permanent migrant status. They'd be affected by Danielle Smith's referendum questions.
Doubt they're explicit targets of the proposed crackdown on services for temporary residents, but they represent 1 in 7 of them. cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
www.cbc.ca She fled Ukraine to safety in Alberta. Now, she’s worried about her place after the referendum |... Ukrainians in Alberta fear what the outcome of the immigration questions in the referendum could mean for their standing in the province they now call home.
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Danielle Smith lavishes praise on Ottawa for how much it collaborated w/ province before naming new judges, days before Alberta’s referendum Q that proposes to constutionally overhaul judicial appointment system.
(bonus, surely, that 1 new judge was her deputy justice min.)
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The timeline of western alienation may be long, but for so many Alberta separatists their trajectories really began in 2020 and 2021, with COVID.
New by me: cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
www.cbc.ca ANALYSIS | How anti-COVID activism injected life into Alberta's separatist movement | CBC News They fought vaccines and public health restrictions. Over time, their push for freedom shifted to independence.