March Issue

FEATURE

What’s Wrong with Rehab?

The lack of accountability in the “Alberta Model”

Dialogue

Should Charitable Donations be Tax Deductible?

A dialogue between Tracy Smith-Carrier and Justin Smith

Feature

Mental Health, Place and Home

Two intersecting viewpoints

Column

Quiz Time!

Test your ability to process illogic

View of Alberta

SHOES, by Steve Kuno 
2019, Lethbridge.

Book Reviews

Who Gets In

by Norman Ravvin,
reviewed by Alvin Finkel

Bad Cree

by Jessica Johns,
reviewed by Kaitlyn Purcell

This is How You Start to Disappear

by Astrid Blodgett,
reviewed by Barb Howard

Sharp Notions

edited by Marita Dachsel and Nancy Lee,
reviewed by Agnieszka Matejko

Muster Points

by Lucas Crawford,
reviewed by Bruce Cinnamon

How to Read Like You Mean It

by Kyle Conway,
reviewed by Richard Harrison

Briefly Noted: March 2024

My Life in Propaganda:
Language and Totalitarian Regimes

books

Art

art

CHIEN ET L’OMBRE DOG AND SHADOW, 
by Carol Wainio, 2021. Acrylic on canvas. 54″ x 72″. TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary.

Contributors

Euan Thomson

(“What’s Wrong with Rehab?”) co-launched EACH+EVERY, which supports evidence-based, human solutions to unregulated drug toxicity.

Tracy Smith-Carrier and Justin Smith

(“Should Charitable Donations be Tax Deductible?”) Tracy Smith-Carrier is an associate professor of humanitarian studies and business at Royal Roads University. Justin Smith is associate chair of economics at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Graham Thomson

(“Quiz Time!”) is a political analyst, member of the Legislature Press Gallery and former Edmonton Journal political columnist.

Holly Symonds-Brown and Leif Gregersen

(“Mental Health, Place and Home”) Holly Symonds-Brown is an assistant professor at the University of Alberta. Leif Gregersen is an Edmonton author and mental health advocate.

Background

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Mental Health

It’s No Longer a Mental Hospital

Democracy in Alberta isn’t so much broken as unrealised.

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Addiction

Taking Back the Neighbourhood

When sheriffs shut down drug houses.

Tent villages scattered throughout the neighbourhood

Photo Essay

Boyle Street

Photo essay by Alexander Shamota.

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