No Deal
Reinie Jobin, a stocky 68-year-old with porcupine- quill hair, drives along a rutted road beside the community of Little Buffalo. He stops at regular intervals to point out oil and gas wells, [...]
Amy Steele
Amy Steele
Upping the Ante
It’s Saturday Night at the Deerfoot Casino, Calgary’s newest gambling establishment, and the mall-sized parking lot is packed. Inside, people of all ages and ethnicities are betting this will be [...]
Warehouses for Seniors
Carol Wodak feels like a soldier living through a war. Eight years ago her mother had her first stroke. Suddenly her mother could no longer remember how to get dressed and couldn’t be trusted to [...]
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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 ...
The New Literacy
Calgary's new public library garnered worldwide attention when it opened in November 2018. And rightly so: Its stunning, inventive design made Architectural Digest’s “most anticipated” list for 2018, as well as that magazine’s tally of the world’s most futuristic libraries. Edmonton’s new downtown Stanley A. Milner Library won’t be far ...
Should Vaccinations Be Mandatory?
DR. UBAKA OGBOGU SAYS YES.
In March 2016 over 100 people were exposed to measles—a serious, vaccine-preventable disease—at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. The source of the infection was an unvaccinated child admitted to the ER. One of the affected was an immunocompromised toddler battling brain cancer. The risk to this ...