Difficulty with Freedom
Freedom can be difficult. You think you’re free, and then you ask: Am I free, or am I just brainwashed into thinking I’m free? Take, for instance, today’s trip to the grocery store. I had a short [...]
Spin Doctors
The pandemic in Canada had the potential to be an explosive moment of change,” writes Nora Loreto in Spin Doctors. “Canadians could see that money was available to help people out of poverty; [...]
The Cautionary Tale of the Grassfire and the Prairie Ranch
Dr. Fabreau is a general internist at the Peter Lougheed Centre, director, Refugee Health YYC Research Program, O’Brien Institute for Public Health, and an assistant professor at the University [...]
Avenue of Champions
Given that Edmonton has the second-largest urban Indigenous population in the country, it astounds me that it took me a lifetime of reading Alberta books to encounter a story like Conor Kerr’s [...]
Greatest Garden
It was a bleak winter morning when I picked up Greatest Garden: The Paintings of David More, featuring almost 60 works from the nearly 50-year career of this distinguished Alberta artist. [...]
Should Alberta Have Its Own Police Force?
Drew Barnes, the independent MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat, says yes. One of the key recommendations of the provincial government’s Fair Deal Panel was the creation of a provincial police force. [...]
Alberta Rebirth
In 1972—50 years ago this year—Alberta passed its first-ever Bill of Rights. In 1972—50 years ago this year—the Alberta government introduced its first Individual’s Rights Protection Act. In [...]
Stories of Métis Women
This collection of life histories as told by 14 Alberta women of various ages and backgrounds is invaluable for anyone interested in 20th-century Métis experiences. The editors, Bailey Oster and [...]
Impact
Imagine you’re having the kind of day where you have a nagging headache. Or perhaps you feel rage over a slight misadventure. Or a noise grates on your last nerve. Or you’re exhausted by 10 a.m. [...]
“Just Say No To Drugs”
More than four Albertans die of a drug overdose every day. In 2020, 1,358 people in this province—most of whom had taken an opioid—died of a drug overdose. In 2021, 1,758 Albertans died the same [...]
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The Dramatic Fall of Jason Kenney
Subsequent events have cast shadows over the jubilant atmosphere at the BMO Centre in Calgary on October 28, 2017. This was a banner night for conservatism in Alberta as former federal cabinet minister and movement leader Jason Kenney rode to the stage in a signature blue pickup truck to claim the new ...
Professors Pushed to the Edge
It's a cold winter's day in Lethbridge, the sky a kind of pot-metal grey. The flags fly stiff at the university’s main entrance. In normal times my faculty colleagues and I would be in our offices. I’d be just getting back from teaching my 9:00 a.m. Canadian Society class. But nothing about the ...
Let’s Debate CanCon
When the Senate returns to work in September, one of its first orders of business will be to debate and study Bill C-11, which amends Canada’s broadcasting legislation. Our Broadcast Act hasn’t been changed in a serious way in over 30 years. Back then we watched shows on TV, listened to music on the ...