Fixing Long-Term Care
On maps of old, cartographers would mark unknown regions with the Latin phrase hic sunt dracones, here be dragons. Those regions were feared, and myths were created both to warn of unknown [...]
Seniors
Seniors
On Memory and Aging
I am 61 years old. My mind functions well enough to write this article and the books that are my living. Nonetheless, what happens to minds as they age is happening to mine. Memory flaws are a [...]
By Fred Stenson
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
Home as Hospital
For nearly a decade, Judy Pidgeon packed away her wanderlust—and indeed, much of her life—to look after her mom, who was profoundly disabled by a stroke. Recalling her mother’s fierce desire not [...]
No Place to Age
Retired provincial court judge Tom McMeekin became a bit of a minor celebrity a few years ago when he decided it was time the world knew what life was like in a local nursing home. McMeekin’s [...]
By Hope Smith
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Alberta Rebirth
In 1972—50 years ago this year—Alberta passed its first-ever Bill of Rights.
In 1972—50 years ago this year—the Alberta government introduced its first Individual’s Rights Protection Act.
In 1972—50 years ago this year—Alberta outlawed eugenics and repealed its infamous Sexual Sterilization Act.
In 1972—50 years ago this year—Alberta repealed its Communal Property Act, which ...
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 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 ...
Crowfoot Comes Home
Herman Yellow Old Woman was asleep in his home on the Siksika reserve east of Calgary on April 7, 2020, when the phone started ringing at 5:30 a.m.
It was Alison Brown, a professor of anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. She told Yellow Old Woman that Exeter City Council ...