The Dire State of Hospitals
Dense expanses of boreal forest, the kind that seem to attract wildfires, surround the town of Whitecourt like a wall of evergreen matches. Forestry is the traditional economic driver in this [...]
By Keith Gerein
Hospitals
Hospitals
Awakened by Laughter
The two nurses answered my bell to take me to the bathroom. It was past midnight. They strapped me into a special jacket. Then, with a portable crane, they lifted me like a sack of potatoes into [...]
By John Lathrop
A Painful Truth
If one day soon you break your hip or have a stroke or simply have a bad case of food poisoning at two in the morning, how long will you wait in your hospital’s emergency room? Hundreds of [...]
By Diana Gibson
Born in Alberta
More and more Albertans are learning what many people in other industrialized states already know: midwifery services are essential to a modern health care system. While the integration of [...]
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Misplaced Anger
Should Alberta ditch Canada? This simple yet ominous question—blazoned on two Alberta billboards earlier this year, and asked by many in the recent provincial election campaign—reflects a deep feeling of frustration and resentment throughout the province, much of it directed at Ottawa.
Environics, in their 2019 Survey of Canadians, found 71 ...
All The Rage
The tipping point came a week from the end of the campaign, and
by April 16 in the Big Four Roadhouse on the Calgary Stampede grounds, United Conservative Party supporters felt scant need for civility. Not anymore. The UCP had won the 2019 Alberta election, taking 63 seats to the NDP’s ...
Is Southern Alberta Home to Canada’s Stonehenge?
Imagine you are a bird, soaring. Below you on a high rise of prairie in southern Alberta lies an elaborate arrangement of stones. With eagle eyes you see distinctive lines radiating out every which way from a huge central cairn, enclosed within an outer ring of more stones. This is ...