Sky-High Rents
Marni Armstrong received the shock of her life when she opened the envelope. Enclosed was a notice from her landlord explaining that the rent for her one-bedroom apartment in the Mission district [...]
Mike Sadava
Mike Sadava
More Choice, Less Education
Dale Ladouceur, whose daughter Ramsay is in Grade 2 at Coronation Elementary School in Edmonton, took on a job last year that was unknown to previous generations of Albertans—generating press [...]
Label Free
Laurence Decore made a panicked phone call to his campaign manager during his first run to be mayor of Edmonton. As manager Jim Lightbody recalls, a woman had told Decore that she was considering [...]
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Jason Kenney’s Vision for K-12
It was by all accounts, a fiery speech. Standing on a blue-curtained stage in front of a couple thousand supporters at the UCP’s inaugural policy convention in Red Deer in May 2018, leader Jason Kenney went on the attack against anti-oilsands activists and the foreign money he says funds them ...
The New Literacy
Calgary's new public library garnered worldwide attention when it opened in November 2018. And rightly so: Its stunning, inventive design made Architectural Digest’s “most anticipated” list for 2018, as well as that magazine’s tally of the world’s most futuristic libraries. Edmonton’s new downtown Stanley A. Milner Library won’t be far ...
Should Vaccinations Be Mandatory?
DR. UBAKA OGBOGU SAYS YES.
In March 2016 over 100 people were exposed to measles—a serious, vaccine-preventable disease—at Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. The source of the infection was an unvaccinated child admitted to the ER. One of the affected was an immunocompromised toddler battling brain cancer. The risk to this ...