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Dangerous Grounds

Coming soon to a democracy near you

The Collapse of Syria

The story of a nation’s unravelling, one neighbourhood at a time

Trompe Le Toil

The modern conundrum of overwork

Patrick Brethour

Patrick Brethour is the British Columbia editor for The Globe and Mail; previously he reported on the Alberta oil sector.

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Oil Patch Heresy

An Albertan petro-history helps make the case for a new national energy program. October 2005

A Slippery Debate

Black-and-white moralizing about the oil sands slides too easily into caricature October 2010
I first met Ezra Levant in the depths of CTV’s Calgary studios, a hallway encounter that only lasted a few seconds, just long enough for the pugilist-conservative to grin and to flash a thumbs-up in my direction. My thumb-worthy deed? I had made an offhand remark on air a few minutes earlier that Albertans remained unhappy about the National Energy…

Who's Stupid?

A Montreal writer tries to blame Albertans for all our environmental sins January–February 2008