Should We Rename Institutions?
Kristopher Wells, the MacEwan University Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Issues, says yes. There’s been a lot of discussion of late about names and the importance [...]
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Dialogue
Should Alberta Keep Fighting the Pine Beetle?
Kevin Van Tighem, the conservation and nature writer and former superintendent of Banff National Park, says no. Our fight against the mountain pine beetle is doomed to failure. And in fighting [...]
Should Alberta Have Its Own Police Force?
Drew Barnes, the independent MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat, says yes. One of the key recommendations of the provincial government’s Fair Deal Panel was the creation of a provincial police force. [...]
Should Alberta Have Toll Roads?
Enid Slack, the director of the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the University of Toronto, says yes. For people tired of being stuck in traffic or concerned about the health and [...]
Should Alberta Have $10/Day Childcare?
Marina Adshade, the professor of economics at UBC and author of Dollars and Sex (Harper Collins, 2013) says yes. If you are like me, and believe the role of responsible government is to spend [...]
Should Canada Have An Inheritance Tax?
David Moscrop, the contributing columnist for the Washington Post and author of Too Dumb For Democracy?, says yes. Intergenerational wealth transfer is central to perpetuating wealth inequality. [...]
Should We Have Universal Guaranteed Income?
Elaine Power, the head of gender studies at Queen’s University, says yes. Basic income—a guaranteed minimum income—already exists in Canada, for seniors and children. Canadians aged 65 or over [...]
Should All Long-Term Care Be Public?
Rebecca Graff-McRae, the research manager at the Parkland Institute, says yes. If we are lucky we will grow old. If we are lucky, someone will care for us when we do. We all deserve and need the [...]
Should All University Students Take Some Liberal Arts?
Shelly Wismath, the Dean of the School of Liberal Education at the University of Lethbridge, says yes. The term “liberal arts” comes from the Latin liber, meaning free, and originally [...]
Should We Nationalize the Oil Sands?
Martin Lukacs, the investigative journalist, editor at The Breach and author of The Trudeau Formula says yes. This is a make or break decade for climate action, which will either usher in a [...]
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The Dramatic Fall of Jason Kenney
Subsequent events have cast shadows over the jubilant atmosphere at the BMO Centre in Calgary on October 28, 2017. This was a banner night for conservatism in Alberta as former federal cabinet minister and movement leader Jason Kenney rode to the stage in a signature blue pickup truck to claim the new ...
Professors Pushed to the Edge
It's a cold winter's day in Lethbridge, the sky a kind of pot-metal grey. The flags fly stiff at the university’s main entrance. In normal times my faculty colleagues and I would be in our offices. I’d be just getting back from teaching my 9:00 a.m. Canadian Society class. But nothing about the ...
Let’s Debate CanCon
When the Senate returns to work in September, one of its first orders of business will be to debate and study Bill C-11, which amends Canada’s broadcasting legislation. Our Broadcast Act hasn’t been changed in a serious way in over 30 years. Back then we watched shows on TV, listened to music on the ...