AIMCo owns more than $200 million of shares in companies profiting and participating in the illegal occupation and genocide in Palestine
The Alberta Investment Management Corporation or AIMCo owns more than $200 million in shares in companies which are profiting from and participating in the occupation and illegal settlement of Palestine, according to activists with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Read moreUCP appointees to Alberta university boards have donated more than $72K to the UCP since 2017
Government appointees to the Board of Governors at Alberta’s universities have donated more than $72,000 to the ruling United Conservative Party since the party’s inception, according to an exclusive Progress Report analysis.
POD: The desperate crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech in Canada
Law professor Joshua Sealy-Harrington joins host Duncan Kinney to discuss how universities and police forces across Canada are cracking down on pro-Palestinian speech and the serious effects these actions are having on Canada's very broken and barely functioning democracy.
Read moreProposed Transalta acquisition mean your electricity bills are somehow going to get even worse
On November 2, Alberta’s largest electricity generation company Transalta announced that it was acquiring the province’s third largest electricity generation company, Heartland Generation.
Read moreHate crime charge dropped against Calgary man who led, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” chant
A co-organizer of a Palestinian solidarity march who was charged with a hate crime for leading a chant of, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” has had his charges stayed.
Read moreWhat you need to know about Alberta's newest batch of legislation
There’s no shortage of dramatic political news this November, from historic rallies against the occupation of Gaza to an aggressive play by Danielle Smith to restructure Alberta’s health care system. But while the spotlight is elsewhere, Alberta’s Legislative Assembly is still open for business. Here’s what you need to know about eleven new laws they’re cooking up in there:
Read moreU of A cancels “damage-control” talk on 14th Waffen-SS division after pushback from professors
The University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) has quietly cancelled a webinar about the Waffen-SS and the Galicia Division which included Alik Gomelsky, a speaker with no apparent academic credentials whose writing focuses on rehabilitating Ukrainian Nazi collaborators.
Read morePalestine solidarity march organizer arrested by Calgary Police for chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”
After a Nov. 5 pro-Palestine march in Calgary, co-organizer Wesam Khaled was charged with a hate crime for leading a chant of, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” his fellow organizers say.
Read morePodcast: UCP AGM a preview of where Canada's conservative movement is going
The Progress Report podcast is back and fellow Progress Reporters Jeremy Appel and Jim Storrie are around to break down the resolutions and the vibes heading into the upcoming UCP AGM. This is the first AGM with Danielle Smith at the helm and we'll see where her loosey-goosey leadership style plays with an increasingly bug-eyed UCP grassroots.
Read moreBeware the Blob: The Edmonton Police budget is coming for you and everything you care about
If you live in Edmonton you are going to see a higher than expected increase to your property taxes. If you’re one of 4,500 inside city workers in Edmonton you haven’t seen a pay increase in five years and are still without a contract.
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