Mark Hill

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EDMONTON — The Centurion Project, an Alberta separatist organization, has been accused of illegally accessing the personal information of nearly three million voters, in a patriotic display of separating Albertans from their privacy.

J.J. Abrams’ stock has been low ever since he put Star Wars in a bind it’s still extracting itself from. The Rise of Skywalker was the sequel trilogy’s critical and commercial low-point, and while it still hauled in a hefty sack of cash for its galactic overlords at Disney, the franchise doesn’t seem to know what to do with itself now that the Skywalker Saga has reached its empty end.

Any half-decent action movie needs to make the stakes of its bloodshed clear. A single nameless goon is about as threatening to John Wick as a sickly puppy is to you, whereas much of the appeal of watching a thriller like Heat is in seeing how two equally deadly forces attempt to outmaneuver each other. This sliding scale of lethality informs an action movie’s tone and tenor, which is what made it so interesting when, five years ago today, Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham dropped a terminator into a world of would-be badasses.

In Star Trek, you either die a villain or live long enough to get recontextualized as part of a more nuanced species. The Next Generation gave depth to the Klingons who’d plagued Kirk and the Enterprise on The Original Series, while Deep Space Nine fleshed out the Cardassians and the Ferengi, who replaced the Klingons as stock villains on TNG. Other species are less fortunate; Voyager’s ill-received Kazon, for example, were largely dropped from the canon after serving two seasons as one-note antagonists.

Oh, good, another pointless remake that puts flashy technology and big-budget spectacle ahead of moviemaking fundamentals, and makes it all much longer than it should be to boot. Admittedly, critics and audiences generally seem to like it, but why does this even exist when Hollywood should be pursuing original ideas instead? Are even our greatest creators stuck in a rut?

Sometimes you have to rile up the fans.

MONTREAL — The Montreal Victoire have won the PWHL 's Walter Cup, ending an excruciating three-year period where the championship resided south of the border.

EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has announced a Fall referendum on the general notion of referendums, including what they are, what if any questions they could ask, and why Alberta Separatists are right about everything.

The Alberta addiction recovery model provides real reasons for optimism, but other provinces can’t take shortcuts