The Doll
The Doll isn’t a typical children’s story. An autobiographical tale by Nhung Tran-Davies, it tackles the refugee crisis, surviving stormy seas, and racism. It’s a lot to pack into a handful of [...]
Agnieszka Matejko
Agnieszka Matejko
Finding Refugee in Canada: Narratives of Dislocation
Our flight from Africa landed at the Edmonton airport in the midst of a February snowstorm. Tarmac lighting illuminated horizontal gusts of snow that vanished into the cold night. My parents, [...]
Alberta Book
Photographers face fierce competition nowadays. Even five-year-old children snap pictures, and the smallest minutiae of the day fill the internet. Photography has become the lingua franca of our [...]
The Writing on the Wall:
Visits to art galleries can frequently be marred by semi-comprehensible curatorial statements with a tenuous relationship to the art. So it was with hesitation that I opened The Writing on the [...]
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The Absurd UCP Curriculum
Jason Kenney arrived in Alberta provincial politics with a laser focus on reforming K–12 education, and one of his primary targets was curriculum—what students learn in school. During the first annual general meeting of the United Conservative Party in 2018, Kenney announced: “If the NDP tries to smuggle more of their ...
We Are Our Own Masters
On January 30, 1649, Charles, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, lost his head. Literally. The king, believing he had a divine right to rule, tried to shut down parliament and reign as absolute monarch. He was arrested, tried by parliament for treason and publicly executed.
First, the republicans of Oliver ...
Jason Kenney’s Vision for K-12
It was by all accounts, a fiery speech. Standing on a blue-curtained stage in front of a couple thousand supporters at the UCP’s inaugural policy convention in Red Deer in May 2018, leader Jason Kenney went on the attack against anti-oilsands activists and the foreign money he says funds them ...