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Fat City

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Submitted by alexb on June 15, 2009
In Category: Politics

Fat City features the musings of a disenchanted, sarcastic, but ultimately charming post-undergrad working as a journalist in Fort McMurray. Featuring non-news from the oil sands and life in the wild west.

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Wild! Fires!

By the way, everyone, we’re not burning or anything. Thanks for the concern and all, but seriously. We’re not on fire.

Source: Fat City | June 18, 2009

Iris Evans Has Some Retarded Views on Mental Illness

We haven’t had this level of foot-in-mouth comments from the conservative camp since last week. Iris Evans, Alberta’s finance mi...

Source: Fat City | June 18, 2009

Fort Chipewyan’s Problems are, like, Raitt-Aide-Level Sexy

There are no negative effects stemming from oil sand development. Everybody knows that! But some pesky residence of Fort Chipewyan, a commun...

Source: Fat City | June 15, 2009

Clean Energy Fund Examined… By Everyone Except Layton.

Jackie Boy was in the news today blasting environment, that’s right, environment  minister Jim Prentice about taking $1 billion earma...

Source: Fat City | June 12, 2009

Iraitt Pundits and A Good Reason to Pay Attention

There has been no shortage of coverage over the audio recordings released by Halifax’s Chronicle Herald this week. I even covered it!

Source: Fat City | June 12, 2009

Busting a Cap (and Trade)

ForestEthics, a Toronto based non-profit organization, has just released a report calling for a “fair cap and trade system in Canada&#...

Source: Fat City | May 31, 2009

Inconvenience and Finitude

Calgary-based journalist Chris Turner has an interesting piece in the June issue of The Walrus. It concerns geologist Dave Hughs, who tours...

Source: Fat City | May 31, 2009

Alberta, Alberta

My plane touched down around 2:30 a.m. for me, 11:30 p.m. for Alberta. As I waited to pick up my luggage, I became quite aware that the man...

Source: Fat City | May 31, 2009

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