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Decades later, it is obvious that it wasn’t Canada Day that was uncomplicated, it was our narratives about the country. How complicated (or “problematic” in the current jargon) Canada’s past actually is, is only now starting to come to our general understanding, and a lot of us don’t like what we see in particular the agonizing realization that on the grounds of many of the former residential schools there are the unmarked graves of hundreds of students who died there.
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Road Ahead 2021: What the heck is going on? A public forum
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CBC poll: Some heartening data about vaccines in Alberta, but intransigence remains
Polling data shows that Albertans who say they will refuse to take a vaccine are more likely to be conservative, less educated, and pessimistic about the financial future.
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Anti-lockdown and anti-mask protesters take part in a rally outside the Alberta Legislature earlier this month. Clear-eyed rage and economic terror are running the show for this segment of the population, says Jen Gerson.(Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)
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