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After 9/11, humour became a way to survive and heal (opens the original)
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Jasmeet Raina leaned on comedy days after the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when students at school began circulating rumours that his uncle was Osama bin Laden. “They were like, ’Oh yeah, we saw Osama drop him off at school,’” he said. The driver was his father, who is Sikh, wears a turban and took Raina to his middle school in Guelph, Ont., not the al-Qaeda leader who plotted the deadly attacks on the United States. “It was a pretty traumatic part of my life, as I’m sure it was for a lot o
Alberta separatists rally ahead of province’s birthday celebrations (opens the original)
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Alberta separatists converged outside the legislature in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon ahead of the province’s birthday, with many praying, listening to sermons and saying Alberta would be better off without Canada after having joined Confederation 121 years ago. “It’s the corruption, the lies from out east. I’m just tired of it,” said Skip Macaulay, a rally attendee who lives in the central Alberta city of Lacombe. “I’m tired of being told how to live my life. I’m a gun enthusiast ... I want c
Hundreds protest Meta’s planned data centre in Alberta county (opens the original)
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Hundreds of protesters chanted “Down, down with corporations” outside a northern Alberta county office on Sunday to voice their opposition to tech giant Meta’s plan to build a data centre. The morning protest took place in Morinville, a town in Sturgeon County, where the company behind Facebook announced last month that it’s building a massive one-gigawatt data centre. Cars honked at rally-goers waving signs, including one showing a picture of Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg with a message on top: Ex
Alberta drenched by record-setting rain after summers of wildfire smoke (opens the original)
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Summertime in Alberta usually consists of wildfire smoke, but this year has been different. Several parts of the province have been hit by storms. Edmonton was hammered by record-breaking rain in June and is on its way to doing it again this month, says Environment Canada. “Alberta was actually on a kind of a trend of getting drier each year until this year,” said Dan Fulton, a meteorologist with the agency. He said Alberta’s capital city saw 264 millimetres of rain in June, smashing the record
Founder of North America’s longest running Fringe Festival in Edmonton has died (opens the original)
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The founder of North America’s longest-running Fringe theatre festival and a celebrated advocate of storytelling has died. The Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival says Brian Paisley died Thursday in Mexico, where he was spending his retirement, after a long struggle with pneumonia. Paisley, a screenwriter, author and playwright, launched the festival in Edmonton 45 years ago. “All hearts are feeling his loss,” said Murray Utas, the festival’s artistic director, in a Tuesday interview.
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