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As a place to work, Alberta has always had a mixed reputation. The province’s minimum wage ($8.80/hour), for example, is the second-lowest in Canada. But the proportion of Alberta’s population [...]
David Bright
David Bright
Who Stands Up For Workers?
“Welcome to the miracle on the prairies!” was Ralph Klein’s victory cry after winning the 1993 provincial election. It was also a wry admission of how low the Conservatives’ standing and [...]
Alberta’s Hostility Towards Labour
“Calgary is a labor union city…. The unions are strong and responsible, and in all cases the unions have been exceedingly reasonable…. The laboring man who is not a labor unionist is both [...]
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The Plans to Strip-Mine Coal in the Mountains
It looks like spectacular wild country, but some see it more as a big money sandwich.
The top layer of that sandwich is comprised of alpine grasses, forget-me-nots and stonecrop, glacier lilies and ancient, brave pines whose branches have been gnarled and weathered by centuries of wind. In summer, solitaires and ...
Can Climate Change Be Reversed?
When NASA initiated the Mercury Project that would send the first American into space in 1958, one of the many questions facing scientists was what to do about the carbon dioxide emissions of their astronauts. Our bodies exude about a kilogram per day of the gas, which is lethal in ...
Der Indianer
The first thing John Blackbird learned when he was growing up on the Canadian prairies was that his people were no good. Indians were history’s losers: dethroned, displaced, rounded up and ghettoized on the reserves. Raised by a white family from the age of nine, Blackbird heard from friends and ...