Should Alberta Phase Out Gas Cars?
Dan Woynillowicz, the senior associate at Clean Energy Canada says yes. The stories keep coming. Record sales of electric cars across Canada. A video of an electric Ford F-150 towing a freight [...]
Dialogue
Dialogue
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 [...]
Should We Bail Out the Oil and Gas Industry?
Max Fawcett The writer and former editor at Alberta Venture says yes. For the better part of five years now, Canada’s oil and gas industry has blamed Justin Trudeau for all of its problems. Now, [...]
Is Alberta Overregulated?
Ricardo Acuña The president of the University of Alberta’s Association of Academic Staff says no While repeating the mantra and rhetoric that our businesses are overregulated helps corporations [...]
Is a Referendum a Good Way to Make a Decision?
TED MORTON The professor emeritus of political science at U of C and former Alberta minister of finance SAYS YES Referendums were first adopted in the western US in the Progressive Era, [...]
Should Universities “Deplatform” Speakers?
Irfan Chaudhry The equity, diversity and human rights specialist and MacEwan University lecturer says yes. In an age of increasing social and political polarization, universities are becoming [...]
Should Union Membership Be Optional?
John Mortimer, the president of the Canadian LabourWatch Association says yes As Canada is a signatory to UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, our answer should be yes. Article [...]
Is Poverty the Individual’s Fault?
CHRIS SARLO The economics professor at Nipissing University and senior fellow at the Fraser Institute SAYS YES I’ll answer yes—with two qualifications. First, the setting in which I believe [...]
Should there be mandatory minimum sentences?
Lisa Silver The U of C assistant professor of law says no Our legal system is a reflection of who we are as a society. The values at the core of that system promote fairness and justice. These [...]
Is Home Schooling in the Public Interest?
paul van den bosch says YES Many studies and a wealth of evidence show that home education is academically and socially good for the student and also benefits their family. The proof is in [...]
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Why She Runs
It's a half hour before dawn when Rachel Notley emerges from her hotel elevator, and I barely recognize her. She’s wearing her running clothes and a battered pair of Asics Gel running shoes. Despite having arrived in Calgary late the night before, she has a schedule to keep and she’s eager ...
The Plans to Strip-Mine Coal in the Mountains
It looks like spectacular wild country, but some see it more as a big money sandwich.
The top layer of that sandwich is comprised of alpine grasses, forget-me-nots and stonecrop, glacier lilies and ancient, brave pines whose branches have been gnarled and weathered by centuries of wind. In summer, solitaires and ...
Suddenly There’s Room at the Inn
On a recent Thursday outside the Coliseum Inn, a woman in wrinkled clothes balances a large blue sleeping bag atop her shoulder. In the parking lot a man pushes a shopping cart overflowing with clothing. Outside the lobby doors, a man asks, “Hey, got a dollar?”
The scene is at odds with ...