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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Reducing the Harm
It's a little after 10 o’clock in the morning and Taylor feels like she’s climbing the walls.
When her name is called and the door to Lethbridge’s supervised drug consumption site buzzes open, Taylor moves quickly on her crutches. She settles into a chair at the second booth from the end ...
Should All Drugs Be Decriminalized?
Hakique Virani says yes.
Twelve-step addiction recovery programs teach that it is irrational to “do the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” This should be a lesson for legislators too. As the 4,000 Canadian families who lost a loved one to an opioid overdose last year know, our ...
Holy Healthcare
Just tell them we don’t have it here.” That’s what the nurse told me in Killam Hospital, an hour east of Camrose. I’d asked what would happen if a woman came into our ER asking for the morning-after pill. The nurse wasn’t being self-righteous, but simply explaining the policy.
As ...