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March 31-April 4, 2025
Danielle Smith celebrates the removal of the federal consumer carbon tax
Tags: Adriana LaGrange, AHS, Alberta, Alberta Health Services, Alberta Views, aluminum, Andre Tremblay, Auto tariffs, brain cancer, carbon tax, carbon tax rebate, Carney, CEO of AHS, Child and youth support program, Children's Hosptial, danielle smith, Donald trump, edmonton, effiency, energy, ER, Facebook, food policy, fuel savings, funding, Funding cuts, Global tariffs, Globe and Mail, health minister, hospital, Labour Force Survey, Lethbridge, Liberals, manufacturing, mark carney, measles, Medical benefits, popsicle, Preston Manning, Reform Party, retail, statistics canada, Tariff war, Tax free, The Ministry of Children and Family Services, The Week in Alberta, unemployment, United Nurses of Alberta, West, Western Secession
April 4, 2025
False Advertising?
“Alberta called”—but isn’t providing the public infrastructure to support growth
Tags: Airdrie, Alberta, Alberta government, alberta politics, Alberta Views, BC, calgary, canada, Canada West, climate change, danielle smith, democracy, edmonton, education, environment, Fort McMurray, government, Grande Prairie, healthcare, homelessness, Jason Kenney, medicine hat, Ontario, politics, population growth, Quebec, Rebecca Graff-McRae, Shaun Newman, UCP
April 1, 2025
A Shrunken Head in the Family
Tsantsas in museums are stuck in limbo
Tags: Achuar, Andrew Nelson, anthropologist, archaeologists, ceremonies, Chatham-Kent, cinchona bark, colonialism, commercial value, commodity, cryogenics, cultural heritage, Cultural tradition, Cynthia Chang-Christison, Daryl Betenia, DC, Ecuador, Europeans, exchange, Frances Larson, Galgary herald, Glenbow Museum, Gourlay, Gretchen Gourlay, guns, Heritage and Death, human remains, Indigenous people, Jefferson Acacho, Laura Van Broekhoven, limbo, Liz Gibbs, Medical students, Mummy, museum, museum collections, National Museum of the American Indian, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Oxford University, Pelly Bay, Peru, Pitt Rivers, Pitt Rivers Museum, private collections, public collections, Quinine, Racism, Repatriation, Ripley's Believe it or Not, Robert Gourlay, Routledge Handbook of Museums, Severed: A History of Heads lost and Heads Found, Shrunken head, Shuar, southern Ontario, storage, taxidermy, Tsantsa, Tsantsas Project, university of calgary, Washington, washington DC, Western University in Ontario
Great-Grandfather, Your Jewish Settler Story is so Unheroic
Rabbi Eliezer Gruber’s Jewish Agricultural Settlement Schemes
Tags: 1857, 1880, 1884, 1892, 1898, 1901, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1932, 1937, 2023, 2024, Alberta Labour History Institute, aliyah, Alvin Finkel, Athabasca University, Austro-Hungarian army, Baba, biblical, bigamist, bigamy, Britain, canada, Canadians, central Europe, Cholojow, colonists, colony, commercial gain, congregation, conman, conscripts, CPR, Des Moines, Dubuque, early 1900s, Eliezer Gruber, emigration, english, Europe, extended-family, family, farmland, February 26 1901, First World War, great-granddad, Gruber, history, holocaust, Humans: The 300000 Year Struggle for Equality, Ideal Electric, immigrant, Indigenous elders, Indigenous land, inheritance, inheritors, Iowa, Jewish American, Jewish cemetery, Jewish community, Jewish ghetto, Jewish settler colony, John C. Lehr, kosher, late 1880s, late 1960s, Lehr, Lemburg, local farmers, Lorimer, Lviv, Manitoba, mausoleum, Mossy River, New York, new york city, newspaper, North America along, Palestine, plague, Polish, public housing, rabbi, Rabbi Eliezer Gruber’s Jewish Agricultural Settlement Schemes in Manitoba, relatives, religion, Second World War, Shaarey Zedek cemetery, shtetl, Talmudic, the Morning Telegram, the Prairie History, the Telegram, Travel, Ukraine, unkosher, veterans, wartime, wealth, Winnipeg, World War I, World War II, Yiddish
Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock
I love those incomprehensible flamingoes
Tags: 2024 books, Alberta, Alberta books, Alberta Views, alliteration, anthropocene, Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, Book review, book reviews, books, burying a sentence, calgary, climate change, Dreams of the Epoch & The Rock, earth, ecological, ecopoetry, english, epoch, fiction, flamingos, form, free-verse, geological, Geology, Holocene, Humanity, insects, Jaspreet Singh, language, Memory, mixed stanzas, mourn, plants, poet, poetry, prose poem, Punjabi, research scientist, rock layers, science, scientist, seeds, Singh, spanish, unstressed syllable, verse, visual poem, Waiting for Rain, What Will You Do Earth, white space, wonder
Four Newcomers
“Home is always home”
Tags: 2022, 2022 Canadian Armed Forces, 2023, 2024, accountant, Alberta, Alberta government, Alberta is Calling, alberta politics, Alberta Views, Brendan Canning, canada, Colombia, community, cost of living, culture, daughter, edmonton, edmontonians, Facebook, family, family doctor, generations, George Brown College, grocery prices, healthcare, healthcare system, home, industrial wasteland, licensing, lower mainland, Maryna Mostova, midwife, Mountains, municipality, Namibia, Newmarket, Ontario, orthotics, Photo Essay, physician, pregnant, prosthetics, qualification, rent, roommates, Russia, school, security, social media, stability, teenagers, Toronto, tutor, Ukraine, Ukrainian community, Valentina Vives-Lopez, waitlist, war in ukraine
Should Voting be Mandatory?
A dialogue between Lisa Young and Paul G. Thomas
Tags: 2023, affluent, affordability payments, agency, Alberta government, apathy, Argentina, Australia, ballot, Belgium, canada, Charter of rights and freedoms, children, citizens, citizenship, communities, confidence, conscientious voters, constitutional challenge, cynicism, democracies, democracy, democracy sausage, democratic influence, democratic participation, democratic society, diaspora, election agencies, election day, election outcomes, electoral politics, electorate, eligible citizens, federal elections, fines, freedom of speech, government, health of a democracy, hot dog, Indigenous, Individuals, legitimacy, Lisa Young, lobbying turnout, longer voting period, low income, lower voting age, mandate voting, mandatory voting, misleading information, moral duty, non-voters, online voting, parties, Paul G. Thomas, policies, political process, Political science, political studies, political system, politicians, polling stations, population, protest, provincial election, public affairs, random voting, religious grounds, representative, required voting, right to abstain, right to vote, seniors, society, spoiled ballots, Switzerland, university of calgary, University of Manitoba, vote, vote suppression, voter ID, voter turnout, voters, voting, voting population, western democracies, young adults, young voters
Glenbow Under Wraps
Glenbow is expected to reopen in late 2026.
Tags: 2021, 2026, Alberta, Alberta Views, culture, George Webber, Glenbow, Glenbow Museum, Glenbow renovation, Photo Essay, photography, storage
Strong and Free
My Journey in Alberta Politics
Tags: 2024 books, Alberta, Alberta books, Alberta government, alberta politics, Alberta Views, autobiography, Book review, book reviews, books, democracy, former politician, Political scientist, Strong and Free, ted morton, UCP, University of calgary press
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