March Issue
Dialogue
Should Charitable Donations be Tax Deductible?
A dialogue between Tracy Smith-Carrier and Justin Smith
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
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
Mental Health
It’s No Longer a Mental Hospital
Democracy in Alberta isn’t so much broken as unrealised.