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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As Alberta staggered under a third surge of COVID-19 in May 2021, Premier Jason Kenney announced a province-wide, two-week school closure. Immediately, up rose the chorus that has accompanied [...]

“Hello, 911. What is your emergency?” “I’m at the St. Albert Inn and I think someone has poisoned me.” “We’ll send someone right away.” I hadn’t been poisoned. I had just spent the night in [...]