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  Over the last 10 years, Alberta Views has earned a reputation for questioning how to make this province the best it can be. The magazine has provided commentaries on significant buildings [...]

How the popular movements that shaped our province were perverted into populism.

Does it make sense to support the arts? An economist’s view on cultural funding.

Taking the pulse of Alberta’s symphony orchestras.

A Calgary playwright makes the case for crowning Cowtown our drama capital.

Short Story Contest Winner 2007

The province says life is fine downstream from the oil sands. So why does nobody in Fort Chipewyan believe it?

Oil sands extraction makes a lot of waste. Where does it all go? Welcome to Alberta’s tailings ponds.

What happens when a taxidermist shows up at the baby shower? And why was she invited?

In northern Alberta, a sharp rise in prostitution is a devastating downside of the boom.