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Having a strong loyalty and attachment to one’s country is something to be proud of, and by definition this is nationalism. It is a form of ideology that started in the 19th century with the advent of the nation state.

“After two years of saying that a carbon tax would not affect Canada’s competitiveness and hurt our economy, the federal government just admitted that it actually will … A watered down poison is still a poison and this is economic poison.

While the recent racial event in Grandin was a negative blemish on our city, it did have one positive aspect by its occurrence. After nearly four years of silence and invisibility, our elected NDP MLA, Trevor Horne, finally surfaced .

October featured one of the worst weeks in American history for hate crimes. Between Oct. 21 and 27, elected critics of U.S.

Party politics within Canada has, for the most part, been consistent, and this is because Canadians, for the most part, are centrist in their political values: we do not want extremist parties with extreme policies, whether this be to the left or the

The ghosts and goblins will be haunting local neighbourhoods this evening in search of Halloween goodies.

For the last week and a half, one of the main things on St. Albertans’ minds has been the sickening letter that targeted Indigenous resident Katrina Anderson and her family with racist threats.

This week marked the anniversary of the #Me Too movement. Just a few weeks prior, accused sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Now that we have been fully informed by Statistics Canada that one in four of us has, at one time or another, smoked marijuana, let us stop bleating about whether the police will be able to detect marijuana-induced, acutely impaired drivers.

In the wake of NAFTA renegotiations, social media has been inundated with calls to “Buy Canadian” to protect our home-front industries, the impetus coming from a fear of the low-quality, hormone-enriched milk that could now flood our food aisles in o