Evidence of Habitation
“Evidence of Habitation” explores informal housing and homelessness in Edmonton. The project reveals the signs of individuals as they seek refuge in the interstitial spaces of the city. The [...]
Photo Essay
Photo Essay
What Makes an Excellent Childcare Centre?
An excellent childcare centre, such as this one at Mount Royal University in Calgary, provides a safe, friendly, stimulating environment for children. Probably the most important characteristic [...]
Brave New World
INFOCUS PHOTO EXHIBIT These images are from the seventh annual InFocus, an exhibition of contemporary Canadian photography curated by Alexis Marie Chute and Aaron Chute, at Wild Skies Gallery in [...]
Year of Unrest
The pandemic wasn’t all we had to cope with in 2020. There was turmoil across Alberta. Protesters blockaded CN Rail’s line west of Edmonton to oppose a gas pipeline in BC. Moms Stop The Harm held [...]
By albertaviews
Pandemicton
“I ran through Edmonton between March 19 and May 6 taking photos. I call my photography ‘runtography,’ as I shoot while I’m running with a DSLR I carry in a backpack. Besides the pandemic, the [...]
By Jeff Day
Chinatown
Calgary’s Chinatown has been relocated twice—first in 1886, after a fire on Stephen Avenue destroyed half the neighbourhood, and again in 1910 when a CPR proposal to build a hotel in the vicinity [...]
Workspaces
WorkSpace Canada “examines the individual choices people make in a society where most of us are bound to gainful employment.” Weinhold has taken 4,000 photographs from across Canada for this [...]
Humans of Edmonton
Cordeiro wanders Edmonton’s roads, alleys and river valley, documenting stories of the less fortunate and showcasing a range of colour, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, creed and [...]
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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In 1972—50 years ago this year—Alberta outlawed eugenics and repealed its infamous Sexual Sterilization Act.
In 1972—50 years ago this year—Alberta repealed its Communal Property Act, which ...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 ...