Briefly Noted: October New Books
The Scenic Geology of Alberta: A Roadside Touring and Hiking Guide (by Dale Leckie, Broken Poplars, 2021). From the Buffalo Head Hills near Peace River (where volcanic kimberlite pipes brought [...]
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Meet the Minister: Devin Dreeshen
BIOGRAPHY Born: Innisfail Education: “Studied economics and political science at the U of A” Quote: “Working with a team to achieve a common goal is no different in football than in politics” [...]
Year of Unrest
The pandemic wasn’t all we had to cope with in 2020. There was turmoil across Alberta. Protesters blockaded CN Rail’s line west of Edmonton to oppose a gas pipeline in BC. Moms Stop The Harm held [...]
Briefly Noted: December 2020
The Virtues of Disillusionment (by Stephen Heighton, Athabasca University Press, 2020). “Let’s suppose,” writes Stephen Heighton early in this short book—his inaugural lecture as the 2019/2020 [...]
Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood
Since the constituency was first contested in 2004, only one political party—the NDP—has won election in Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood. It’s the second-longest winning streak for the party [...]
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1st Legion of Utopia: An epic tale of killers, queers and the birth of Canadian socialism (written by James Davidge, art by Bob Prodor and Nick Johnson, Renegade Arts Entertainment, 2019). Set in [...]
Calgary-Buffalo
Calgary-Buffalo is as urban as it gets in Alberta—of the province’s 87 constituencies, Calgary-Buffalo has the highest population density and the smallest geographical size. The office towers in [...]
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Protest and Democracy (edited by Moisés Arce and Roberta Rice, University of Calgary Press, 2019). From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Wall Street movement, mass protests shook countries around [...]
Being Caribou
For 23,000 years the Porcupine caribou have migrated from the Yukon to Alaska. In 2003, two humans joined their journey. In April 2003, wildlife biologist and part-time national park ranger [...]
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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In 1972—50 years ago this year—Alberta outlawed eugenics and repealed its infamous Sexual Sterilization Act.
In 1972—50 years ago this year—Alberta repealed its Communal Property Act, which ...
Should Post-Secondary Education be Free?
Hugh Mackenzie
The economist and research associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says yes.
Free tuition would redress a massive intergenerational inequity created over the past 30 years. In 1990–91, average university tuition in Canada was $1,464; adjusted for inflation, that would be $2,541 in 2019–20. Today the actual average ...
Crowfoot Comes Home
Herman Yellow Old Woman was asleep in his home on the Siksika reserve east of Calgary on April 7, 2020, when the phone started ringing at 5:30 a.m.
It was Alison Brown, a professor of anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She told Yellow Old Woman that Exeter City Council ...