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Open Courts: A Guest Blog on the Trudel/Boenke murder trial by reporter...
I’m honoured, today, to present this guest blog by my colleague Alexandra Zabjek, who, in concert with Janice Johnston of the CBC, spent months working to open court documents in regards to the murder...
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Saturnalia 2.011 – aka Boxing Day
New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik delivered this year's Massey Lectures for the CBC Radio program, Ideas. In his wonderful Massey lecture series, Winter, essayist and popular historian Adam Gopnik argues...
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Mitt Romney, K’naan and Me – A Tale of Waving Flags.
Waving Flag, by K’naan, is one of the my favourite songs – to my daughter’s horror. I blame CBC Radio 2 for this. I got hooked on K’naan a couple of years ago ,thanks to the frequent play the CBC gave...
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Pitbull and Me: An International Love Story
Pitbull. Up until last month, I thought the word referred to a breed of dog – not a Cuban-American rapper. Flo Rida. Until I saw the name written down last week, I never got the...
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Wanted: Answers from Edmonton’s police service
Here’s how the Youth Criminal Justice Act works. No one is allowed to publish the name or photograph of a youth, under the age of 18, charged or convicted of any criminal offense. No one. Not a...
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Comedy gigs: Ron James, Tom Green head to Edmonton
* CBC TV star Ron James will dish out some humour on Sunday, Dec. 16 at the Winspear Centre. Tickets are $51 plus service charges. On sale: Tuesday, Oct. 1 at winspearcentre.com or 780-428-1414. The...
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potd 2o12.11.22 ~ Q and E-ville
Pic, words: Fish Griwkowsky Actor Neil Grahn, singer Colleen Brown and filmmaker Trevor Anderson pose with Jian Ghomeshi at the Sugarbowl at the Q in Edmonton afterparty. The two-hour live-on-tape show...
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Two Edmonton acts up for Bucky Awards
We’re down to the last few hours to vote for CBC Radio 3′s annual Bucky Awards. Shout Out Out Out Out’s Never The Same Way Twice is up for Best Electronic Song. So is Purity Ring‘s Fineshrine. The...
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Vote! Vote! Vote!
Every so often, CBC launches a new talent search for Canada’s brightest musicians. In 2003, the Mother Corp’s TV division gave us Great Canadian Music Dream, a convoluted contest won by Edmonton’s...
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Shelbi doesn’t make the cut in CBC contest
Shocker! Edmonton rockers Shelbi didn’t make it past the round of 24 in CBC’s Best New Artist contest. Calgary country songstress Randi Boulton did … she’s up against Winnipeg’s Elton Adams in the...
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Soul pop from Edmonton’s Josh Sahunta
Let’s shine a few lights on Josh Sahunta. The Edmonton teen will release his soul-pop debut on Friday, Oct. 18 at Block 1912, 10361 Whyte Avenue. Showtime: 7 p.m. Lights is the title of his EP and the...
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Jesse Joensuu could be back in Edmonton Oilers lineup tonight, and not a game...
If there’s a chance Jesse Joensuu is ready to return to the Edmonton Oilers lineup tonight, he will definitely be on the ice, said Edmonton Oilers head coach Dallas Eakins. Joensuu took the morning...
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Kissel visits Strombo
Rising country star Brett Kissel will talk about one of his controversial hobbies on CBC TV’s George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight at 7 p.m. TONIGHT. (Friday, Oct. 18, 2013,) The Edmonton expat, who just...
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2o13.11.o1 ~ ‘helloooo, newman!’
words – fish With a rolling voice as familiar and Canadian as Tom Thompson’s paintings, veteran broadcaster Don Newman sums up more than four decades of direct contact with prime ministers and...
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German ice show tries to woo Jason Strudwick following his Battle of the...
Former Edmonton Oilers defenceman Jason Strudwick. fresh from his runner-up finish in CBC’s Battle of the Blades, received an offer to go to Europe a short time ago. To do the double axel, not clear...
View ArticleHaving babies for strangers explored in new TV documentary
As often happens in the hunter-gatherer stages of building a documentary film, you think it’s about one thing and it ends up being about another. Read More
View ArticleAlbum review: Jr. Gone Wild's 1988 Brave New Waves session happily haunting
Jr. Gone Wild Brave New Waves Session Artoffact Records 5 out of five Capturing the hopeful, laboratory air of the ’80s music scene in Edmonton that helped forge both k.d. lang and SNFU, this album is...
View ArticleThree to See: Emerging poets, social media influencers and This is That redux
Rayanne Haines and Matthew Stepanic: In the midst of its 18th season, the Olive Reading Series features emerging and established poets, local to international, sharing their work and stories the second...
View ArticleQuirks and Quarks' Bob McDonald taking LitFest to the stars with new book
Bringing his new book An Earthling’s Guide to Outer Space to LitFest Thursday, one of Canada’s most approachable science journalists is hoping to give something back. Read More
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