Meet the Minister: Devin Dreeshen
BIOGRAPHY Born: Innisfail Education: “Studied economics and political science at the U of A” Quote: “Working with a team to achieve a common goal is no different in football than in politics” [...]
By albertaviews
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Abuse of Power
Whether you support or oppose Jason Kenney’s policy decisions, as an Albertan you should be concerned about his government’s dishonesty, secretiveness, lack of ethics, unrepresentative decisions [...]
Doctors Depart
Alberta physicians are closing family clinics, withdrawing from hospital services and even leaving the province. Since the start of 2020, according to the Alberta Medical Association (AMA), [...]
The Pandemic and Public Health
Even before the new Coronavirus had a name, one thing was certain: A human being wasn’t entirely in control of whether they would get it. In those first months, geography mattered most of all. On [...]
Alberta’s Black Swan
The best evidence of our conservative government’s cluelessness before the economy tanked in 2020 is the provincial budget. It was passed in a rush on March 18, 2020, two months after the novel [...]
By Jeff Gailus
How Ethical is Alberta’s Governing Party?
We should have seen it coming. The first inkling that controversy would dog Jason Kenney’s victory in the 2017 United Conservative Party leadership race came not during that contest but a year [...]
Getting the Axe
Rod Skura was on a deadline. It was a Thursday afternoon, mid-August, and as an Alberta events-listing site had proclaimed: “Festival season is in full swing and you need to take advantage of it [...]
Meet the Minister: Rajan Sawhney
Profile Born: Calgary Education: BA in economics and political science; MBA; U of C Prior to politics: VP of business development for Fracture Modeling Inc. First elected: 2019/4/16 [...]
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Meet the Minister: Jason Kenney
BIOGRAPHY Born: Oakville, Ontario, May 30, 1968 Raised: Wilcox, Saskatchewan Education: Graduated high school from Athol Murray College of Notre Dame; studied philosophy at the University of San [...]
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Should government apologize for past sins?
David Bercuson The University of Calgary history professor is supportive Nations, religious groups and political parties sometimes commit great harms in the course of their development. In the [...]
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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 ...
Not a White-Bread Childhood
Toronto freelance portrait photographer Markian Lozowchuk (disclosure: his mother and I are second cousins) has photographed Justin Trudeau for Toronto Life and Margaret Atwood for Maclean’s, but his editorial shoot of Chrystia Freeland for Toronto Life in 2017, including the cover, was “the most memorable shoot I’ve done.” Even three ...
Edmonton to Calgary in an Hour
Either way, the three-hour drive between Edmonton and Calgary on the QEII highway has the same itinerary: nice landscape, cows, trees, pumpjack, anti-Ottawa billboard, creeping boredom, leg cramp, Donut Mill raspberry bismarck, cows, fence, pickup truck passing you at 160 km/h, horse, trees, jackknifed semi-trailer in the ditch, pumpjack, cows, full-on boredom ...