The Orchard
Jeremy Appel, Dave Cournoyer, Jeremy Wildeman, Muhannad AyyashNews and analysis from an unabashedly progressive perspective, focusing on the intersection of politics, media and corporate power
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Mark Carney, CEO of Canada Inc.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House in May 2025. (Flickr/The White House)
In June 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney nixed the Digital Services Tax, which would have charged American tech...
ICYMI: July 13-19
At Alberta Native News, I covered Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak’s remarks at the AFN’s annual general assembly in Ottawa, in which she criticized the federal government’s weakening of proposed clean...
Trisha Estabrooks launches campaign to be next Edmonton-Strathcona MLA
Trisha Estabrooks announced her intention to seek the Edmonton-Strathcona nomination for the Alberta NDP on July 17.
The day after Alberta NDP leader and Edmonton-Strathcona MLA Naheed Nenshi announced that he plans to run for a Calgary se...
Edmonton Police Commission doesn't want to talk about Israel
Several speakers attended the July 16 Edmonton Police Commission meeting to criticize Chief Warren Driechel’s February 2026 trip to Israel. (Asad Chishti/CJSR)
The body ostensibly tasked with providing civilian oversight to the Edmonton Po...
How the John Birch Society Shaped Modern Conservatism
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Scholar of right-wing populism Carmen Celestini recently released a book, God’s Angry Men: The Political Legacy of the John Birch Society, which details how the John Birch Society’s paranoid conspiracism influenced the...
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Edmonton-based journalist interested in politics, the media and corporate power. Author of the forthcoming Dark Phoenix: The Rise, Fall, and Re-emergence of Danielle Smith (October 2026).
\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udf3e\ud83c\udfd4️ Dave Cournoyer has been writing and podcasting about Alberta politics and elections since he founded Daveberta in 2005. He frequently shares his thoughts about Alberta politics on CBC, CTV and QR Calgary radio.
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