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Eva Ferguson

@evaferguson2

Former Calgary Herald writer, editor for 38 years. Now retired and adventuring across Alberta, BC and the USA.

 Calgary, Alberta
Joined November 2011
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Don Braid@DonBraid28 Oct 2025
An appalling, unjust, law drives teachers back to work. The most dangerous precedent Alberta has seen In many years. Column. calgaryherald.com/news/braid… #abed #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli
Braid: An appalling, unjust law drives Alberta teachers back to work

Braid: An appalling, unjust law drives Alberta teachers back to work

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Opinion: Alberta undermining public education — and democracy edmontonjournal.com/opinion/…
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Braid: The teachers' strike will be a monster that could affect a million families calgaryherald.com/opinion/co…
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Air Canada, the airline oligopoly and the abused consumer theglobeandmail.com/business…
Opinion: Air Canada, the airline oligopoly and the abused consumer

Opinion: Air Canada, the airline oligopoly and the abused consumer

Customer service goes out the window when consumers have few alternatives

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In doctors’ offices across the country, the Trump administration’s position on vaccines is influencing conversations—"in some cases toward hesitancy, and in others toward haste as people fear that shots will soon be harder to get,” @katherinejwu reports: theatlantic.com/health/archi…

The Conversations Doctors Are Having About Vaccination Now

Pediatricians’ advice on vaccination hasn’t changed. What happens when the government’s does?

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Satellite data sheds light on Russia’s modern-day gulags for Ukrainian children theglobeandmail.com/world/ar…
Satellite data shed light on Russia’s modern-day gulags for Ukrainian children

Satellite data shed light on Russia’s modern-day gulags for Ukrainian children

A Canadian-funded effort is tracking the movements of Ukrainian children taken during wartime

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Emily Maitlis is a UK journalist and broadcaster who I have admired and respected for a long time. Here she absolutely nails it. Disinformation kills people. So by definition the Truth will help you stay alive. Journalism matters. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNdMXkDSP/
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April 6, 2018 is a day the Humboldt Broncos organization, along with the rest of the hockey world, will never forget. Today and every day, we remember and pay tribute to all 29. Always in our thoughts - we play for them. 💚💛 #onceabroncoalwaysabronco
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Trump promised to end inflation and “‘make America affordable again,’” writes @AnnieLowrey. “That is not happening. Worse, the White House’s early policies are making it more likely that the country’s cost-of-living crisis will endure for years to come”: theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Trumpflation

Trumpflation

Everything is going to be a little more expensive now.

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In @nytopinion "There are many good reasons to accommodate budding dictators, and only one reason not to: Anticipatory obedience is a key building block of their power," our columnist @mashagessen writes. nyti.ms/4gxGTaV
Opinion | The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump (Published 2025)

Opinion | The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump (Published 2025)

The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.

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Clashing with consecutive finance ministers shows Trudeau’s disregard for policy theglobeandmail.com/business…
Opinion: Clashing with consecutive finance ministers shows Trudeau’s disregard for policy

Opinion: Clashing with consecutive finance ministers shows Trudeau’s disregard for policy

There is now serious friction about the soundness of the Prime Minister’s policy decisions with two consecutive finance ministers

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Chrystia Freeland resigns as Finance Minister, will leave Trudeau’s cabinet theglobeandmail.com/politics…
Trudeau says he won’t quit but will reflect on events in wake of Freeland’s resignation

Trudeau says he won’t quit but will reflect on events in wake of Freeland’s resignation

The issue of the Prime Minister’s future is not closed, MP says, after caucus meeting in which party members urged Trudeau to step down

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“In a country where more than half of adults have literacy below a sixth-grade level, ambient information, however thin and wrong, is more powerful than actual facts.” Nathan Heller writes about Trump’s victory and the ambience of information. nyer.cm/ceYUUdS
Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information

Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information

For years, Democrats have sought to win elections by micro-targeting communities with detailed facts. What if the secret is big, sloppy notions seeded nationwide?

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@CP2429 Oct 2024
Google exempt from Online News Act for five years, must pay news outlets $100M: CRTC cp24.com/news/canada/2024/10…
Google exempt from Online News Act for five years, must pay news outlets $100M: CRTC

Google exempt from Online News Act for five years, must pay news outlets $100M: CRTC

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has granted Google a five-year exemption from the Online News Act, ordering it to pay $100 million to Canadian news outlets within 60...

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Washington Post becomes the second major U.S. newspaper to decline to endorse a presidential candidate theglobeandmail.com/world/us…
Washington Post becomes the second major U.S. newspaper to decline to endorse a presidential...

Washington Post becomes the second major U.S. newspaper to decline to endorse a presidential...

The publisher of the Post, Will Lewis, wrote in a column that the decision was actually a return to a tradition the paper had years ago of not endorsing candidates

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“Bill Hay lived a remarkable hockey life that reflected the very best of our sport.” Remembering a longtime Calgary resident who had a major impact in hockey, both as an NHL player and later an exec ... calgaryherald.com/sports/hoc…
Hockey world mourns death of former Blackhawks forward and Flames executive Bill Hay

Hockey world mourns death of former Blackhawks forward and Flames executive Bill Hay

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New from me: New developments will double Canmore's population in 20 years. What kind of community will be left when it's done? calgaryherald.com/feature/ca…
New developments will double Canmore's population in 20 years. What kind of community will be left...

New developments will double Canmore's population in 20 years. What kind of community will be left...

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the Venn diagram of the “why isn’t the media covering this?” people and the people who complain about paywalls/refuse to pay for news is so often just a circle
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The creeping desert eroding local news: “There are fewer eyes, and sometimes none, on local councils, police, sports & artistic events. The decisions that people in power make are scrutinized less, if at all.” theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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@TSNHockey30 Aug 2024
With an infectious smile and joyous style of play, Johnny Gaudreau was 'Johnny Hockey' - as appropriate of a moniker as any in the history of the sport. @MichaelFarber3 on the light that Gaudreau brought to the game and the lives of anyone he encountered: tsn.ca/nhl/video/gaudreaus-j…
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