Looking Back, Moving Forward
Looking Back, Moving Forward is an anthology focused on the voices of Canadian immigrant writers. Edmonton-based editor Julie C. Robinson, the former program coordinator of the Writer’s Guild of [...]
Ian L. Samuels
Ian L. Samuels
How To Be Good With Words
Given the importance of the question of how to use language in ways that don’t reinforce prejudice, marginalization or oppression, it’s a little surprising that there hasn’t previously been a [...]
TwoBlackEyes and the Unfinished Script
Upon reaching the end of Tyler Trafford’s new novel, TwoBlackEyes and the Unfinished Script, a reader might have one of three reactions. The first is common on coming to the end of any well-told [...]
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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In 1972—50 years ago this year—Alberta outlawed eugenics and repealed its infamous Sexual Sterilization Act.
In 1972—50 years ago this year—Alberta repealed its Communal Property Act, which ...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 ...