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Hop to it!

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Cannabis, Fred Stenson, Pundits, Veterans

November 1, 2018

Sarah Hoffman

An interview with Sarah Hoffman

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canada, Evan Osenton, Health Canada, Primary Care, Public Healthcare, Sarah Hoffman, Supervised Consumption Site

Lorne Gibson: Election Commissioner

Lorne Gibson was Alberta’s first Election Commissioner—an independent non-partisan officer of the Legislature, appointed in May 2018. Previously he served as Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer from June 2006 to March 2009. It was a contentious term. Gibson pointed out serious flaws in the 2008 election, after which his contract was not renewed by the PC […]

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, By-Election, Election Commissioner, Electoral Officer, Leadership Race, Lorne Gibson, Social Media

October 1, 2018

Welcome to the Anthropocene

Welcome to the Anthropocene is a virtuosic, challenging book of poetry by Alice Major, who served as Edmonton’s first poet laureate. This collection is by turns a lament, a dirge and a celebration of being on earth in this human-dominated moment. It is a book of hefty, rhythmic poetry that demands our listening and asks […]

Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Alice Major, Anthropocene, Essays, Undergraduate, University of Alberta, University of Alberta Press

The Irrelevance of Space and Other Stories

The world is always in movement,” wrote V.S. Naipaul, the late British novelist and travel writer. It’s an apt description for the themes and characters—the “restless feet and wandering spirits”—in Swapna and Ashis Gupta’s co-written book of short stories, The Irrelevance Of Space. In settings ranging from Scandinavia to Canada, Eastern Europe, Iran, Cuba and […]

Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bayeux Arts, Cuba, Iran, Surgery

Women Who Dig

Farming, Feminism and the Fight to Feed the World

Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Cuba, Farming, Feminism, India, Sarah Carter

The Figgs

The Figgs are a family ripe with dysfunctionality—all adult children live at home, working dead-end jobs, and their bickering is full of profanity. Yet parents June and Randy Figg remain oblivious, at least until dynamics are upturned by the arrival of an unexpected grandson. Their son, Derek, who works at a Calgary recycling depot, has […]