Social Issues

“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 [...]

During the second World War, Canada had a national daycare program to facilitate the participation of women with young children in a labour market emptied out by military service and the [...]

At the peak of last winter’s omicron wave, I found myself thinking about “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” If you don’t know the story, here’s a short synopsis: A medieval European town has a [...]

Marina Adshade, the professor of economics at UBC and author of Dollars and Sex (Harper Collins, 2013) says yes. If you are like me, and believe the role of responsible government is to spend [...]

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 [...]

Many Albertans are publicly declaring their opposition to the conservative policies and budget cuts of the UCP government. But as lawn signs defending provincial parks, healthcare and public [...]

Blood Tribe Police Chief Kyle Melting Tallow is growing his hair out. When I visited the police station in Standoff on the Blood Reserve in late September, his face was framed by a wave of black [...]

As I back my minivan out of the garage, I roll down the window. My husband, post-call after a night of anaesthetizing patients for emergency surgeries, is blowing leaves around in the yard with [...]

On a recent Thursday outside the Coliseum Inn, a woman in wrinkled clothes balances a large blue sleeping bag atop her shoulder. In the parking lot a man pushes a shopping cart overflowing with [...]

To understand why he told the press, in April 2018, that Alberta First Nations “want to be owners of a pipeline,” specifically the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX), Chief Allan Adam of the [...]