Eva Ferguson

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

[Don Braid @DonBraid]

An appalling, unjust, law drives teachers back to work. The most dangerous precedent Alberta has seen In many years. Column.
https://t.co/GxJzRvokWJ #abed #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli

[Edmonton Journal @edmontonjournal]

Opinion: Alberta undermining public education — and democracy

https://t.co/0N2K8SEsme

[Calgary Herald @calgaryherald]

Braid: The teachers' strike will be a monster that could affect a million families https://t.co/RH3EJxcEuF

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Air Canada, the airline oligopoly and the abused consumer https://t.co/pi1IMAvgnF

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

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: https://t.co/sIDylNyPsx

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Satellite data sheds light on Russia’s modern-day gulags for Ukrainian children https://t.co/R7ALfPVzxB

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

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 - https://t.co/GKICrCe9Qq

[Humboldt Broncos @HumboldtBroncos]

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

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

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”: https://t.co/kRPNyBgnvY

[The New York Times @nytimes]

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. https://t.co/seLnB8kFmR

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Clashing with consecutive finance ministers shows Trudeau’s disregard for policy https://t.co/GGVq25vsMD

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Chrystia Freeland resigns as Finance Minister, will leave Trudeau’s cabinet
https://t.co/QhIriOW0jv

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“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. https://t.co/TLDAqtYcqq

[CP24 @CP24]

Google exempt from Online News Act for five years, must pay news outlets $100M: CRTC
https://t.co/G6Uk08pdpv

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Washington Post becomes the second major U.S. newspaper to decline to endorse a presidential candidate https://t.co/QlZJ8jxOvB

[Wes Gilbertson @WesGilbertson]

“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 ...
https://t.co/HLi9oEEp3H

[Matthew Scace @mattscace67]

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

https://t.co/PeGoA3LyjP

[Grace Panetta @grace_panetta]

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

[Kelly Cryderman @KellyCryderman]

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.” https://t.co/g31LjQICm0

[TSN Hockey @TSNHockey]

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: https://t.co/9fdj8H2fg8