Should Jury Selection Be Changed?

A dialogue between Steven Penney and Kelly Dawson

• Dialogue
• Law

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Colonialism, Criminal Justice, Debate, Discrimination, Jury Selection, Pros and Cons

December 1, 2018

November

Short Story Contest Winner 2018

• Original Fiction
• Short Story Contest Winner

Tags: Afghanistan, Alcohol, Benjamin Hertwig, Jesus Christ, Muslim, Short Story, Vietnam

Courtroom 356

If you want a glimpse of criminal justice in Alberta, walk up to Courtroom 356 in Edmonton on a weekday morning. Once you go through the glass doors into the foyer, the air smells just a bit of stale alcohol and cigarettes, cloying through the air conditioning. You’ll see a bustle of sheriffs and RCMP […]

• Feature
• Law

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Criminal Justice, Duty Counsel, Justice System, Legal Aid, Sheriffs

Justice For None

A Supreme Court decision on court delay means the legal system must reform.

• Feature
• Law

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Barb Howard, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Court of Appeal, Court of Queen's Bench, Criminal Justice, Duty Counsel, Judicial System, Justice System, Kathleen Ganley, Legal Aid, Minister of Justice, Social Media, Supreme Court

Creek Repairs

A report from the field.

• Columns

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bull Trout, Fishing, Groundwater, Hidden Creek, Oldman River, Property Rights, Trout Unlimited Canada

Plastic

A brief history.

• Wit

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Fred Stenson, Melmac, Petrochemical, Plastic Pollution

Mamaskatch

A Cree Coming of Age

• Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Assembly of First Nations, Camosun College, Candace Fertile, Cree, Darrel J. McLeod, Discrimination, Foster Care, Mamaskatch

I’m Afraid of Men

A manifesto—manus (hand)/infestus (hostile)

• Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Author, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Discrimination, Vivek Shraya

Autant

Let us suppose that there once lived, in an invented town in Alberta’s real Peace River country, an invented family by the name of Garance, some of whose members were distinctly odd. Their oddness consisted in their having abilities that most people do not have. They were afflicted—or perhaps blessed is the word—with a talent […]

• Book Reviews

Tags: Bees, South America, Thistledown Press