Unravelling Allendale
Julie Kitt bought her not-quite-600-square-foot house in Edmonton in 1966, the year I was born. It has one bedroom, one bathroom, a living room, a small kitchen and a utility room where she keeps [...]
Lisa Gregoire
Lisa Gregoire
Crossing the Line
It’s eight o’clock in the morning at police headquarters in Edmonton and a platoon of recruits are smacking each other around with knees and open palms. Half, dressed in thick padded suits, look [...]
The Slipping News
Six months before the June 2002 G8 summit in Kananaskis, a half dozen reporters at the Edmonton Journal started excitedly trading story ideas. It may sound pathetic but reporters do get excited [...]
Westbound Train
In the summer of 1970, a 12-coach train painted with day-glo hippie flowers carried Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, The Band, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Buddy Guy and other folk-rock and blues icons [...]
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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 ...
Out with the Old
On a sunny autumn afternoon, pedestrians walk up to the edge of Edmonton’s 115th St, where steel girders separate the road from the edge of the hill. The view is tremendous: overlooking the lush Victoria Park golf course and the gorgeous panorama of the North Saskatchewan River valley. Most people ...
Pension Folly
In 1965, Quebec, eager to be master in its own house, decided it wanted to have its own pension plan and not be part of the new Canada Pension Plan. Quebec’s population was younger than the Canadian average, and the province had a high birth rate. The province believed its ...