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True Cases By and About Canadian Women and the Law

Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Beverley Mclachlin, Criminal Justice, Essays, Legal Aid, Motherhood, Rule of Law

December 1, 2018

Should All Drugs Be Decriminalized?

A dialogue between Hakique Virani and Roger Chaffin

Tags: Abstinence, Alberta, Alberta Views, Cannabis, Community Support, Criminal Justice, Debate, Decriminalization, Hakique Virani, Opioids, Paramedics, Pros and Cons, Public Safety, Seattle

November 1, 2018

Who Was Uncle Nick?

The black and white photograph, such as those taken with a Brownie box camera, shows a man, perhaps 40 years old, with the sun- and wind-burned face of a farmer, a thick hank of dark hair falling across his forehead. He wears a worker’s denim bib and coveralls, and kneels on one knee in the […]

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, City Council, Coal Mining, Communism, Communist Party, Crowsnest Pass, Cuba, Fascism, Kyiv, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Poland, Socialism, Teacher Strike, Working-Class

Reducing the Harm

Inside Lethbridge’s supervised drug consumption site

Tags: Abstinence, Alberta, Alberta Views, ARCHES, Canada, Discrimination, Drug Addiction, Emergency Medical Services, Facebook, Health Canada, High School, Hospital Wait Times, Hospitals, Kainai Nation, Lethbridge, Opioids, Population, Racism, Social Media, Supervised Consumption Site, Surgery, Treatment Facility, World Health Organization

Homes

A Refugee Story

Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Iraq, Junior High, Muslim, Syria

Visual Cities

Cities, like dreams,” Italo Calvino once wrote, “are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” The enigmatic complexities of urban spaces—“all the visible and invisible questions” they raise—are precisely the subject of Kathleen Wall and Veronica […]

Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Autobiography, Biography, Christine Wiesenthal, University of Calgary Press

Left

With her third novel, Calgary’s Theanna Bischoff delves into murder mystery. Left is built around a disappearance: 29-year-old Natasha Bell, a nurse in Calgary, goes missing while jogging one evening. There is no immediate explanation, nor an obvious culprit, and the disappearance goes unsolved for years. The plot follows those left behind after her death—her […]