A Changed World
Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still for once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for a second, and not move our arms so much. It would [...]
Jackie Flanagan
Jackie Flanagan
Figuring Out What’s True In an Age of Lies
How do you know what you read or hear is true? Finding an answer to this question seems more urgent now than ever. The Collins Dictionary 2017 word of the year was “fake news.” Made popular by [...]
Woman and Politics
Last November Sandra Jansen and Donna Kennedy-Glans, the only women running for the Alberta PC leadership, dropped out of the race. Jansen said she had been vilely harassed and she crossed the [...]
Founder’s Note: Lament For Our Sanity
“Post-truth” was word of the year for 2016 according to the Oxford Dictionary. It means not “after the truth” but “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public [...]
The Problem with Charity
Christmas is coming, snow is flying and bells are jingling around Salvation Army kettles. Albertans will be personally generous, not only by filling the kettles, but in countless other ways: [...]
Anyone Opposed?
For a debate to be effective, the opposing teams must clash. If an issue or a problem is to be thoroughly discussed, arguments on all sides must be raised. This is the value of the opposition in [...]
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The Lesson of Lougheed
For 100 years, between 1905 and 2005, Albertans changed their government only three times (1921, 1935, 1971). The last of these elections, the most portentous, happened 50 years ago this August. Alberta has now changed government twice in the past six years. The next election may see yet another new government—meaning ...
The Assault on Higher Education
The Kenney government proclaimed in fall 2019 that Alberta’s post-secondary institutions were “overly dependent” on government funding—which is an odd thing to say about a public good. Then it declared that the province’s grant to the schools should be reduced by 20 per cent by 2023. The rationale for this ...
Rediscovering a River
The Cree called it Kisiskâciwanisîpiy—the swiftly flowing river. For the Blackfoot, it was omaka-ty—the big river. It starts in the Columbia Icefield, at the toe of the Saskatchewan Glacier, and cuts the province in half as it flows through Banff and Jasper national parks, northeast to Edmonton, then east-by-southeast across the ...