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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 30 years. In 1990–91, average university tuition in Canada was $1,464; adjusted for inflation, that would be $2,541 in 2019–20. Today the actual average ...
Much has been written about the egregious environmental impacts of Alberta’s oil sands, from fugitive clouds of petcoke dust (which damage human lungs and hearts) to the invisible curse of greenhouse gas emissions. But nothing compares to the size and toxicity of the tailings ponds. In a bid to provide America with ...
On a sunny autumn afternoon, pedestrians walk up to the edge of Edmonton’s 115th St, where steel girders separate the road from the edge of the hill. The view is tremendous: overlooking the lush Victoria Park golf course and the gorgeous panorama of the North Saskatchewan River valley. Most people ...