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Sled Island, The Works Art & Design Festival and more
Five things to do across Alberta this week
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Badlands, Sherwood Park, Sled Island
June 22, 2018
November: Poems
A brief introductory note by J. Mark Smith provides an explanatory framework for the poems in Jaspreet Singh’s first collection of verse, November: “November (1984) was the month of mass murder of Sikhs across India. The genocidal violence was orchestrated by high-ranking officials of the Congress Party. Nearly three decades later, Jaspreet Singh’s mother, a […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Christine Wiesenthal, India, Punjabi, Sikh
To Me You Seem Giant
Greg Rhyno’s debut novel, which takes place in the mid-1990s and 10 years later, amounts to a painfully effective exercise in nostalgia. In keeping with a cassette-tape theme, the timelines are dubbed Side A and Side B, and from each side, Rhyno all but bombards the reader with nostalgic tidbits: Sloan, the phone book, Golden Girls, […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Facebook, Naomi K. Lewis, Romance, Social Media
Ranching Women in Southern Alberta
Throughout the history of the western plains, men and the frontier have been mythically and rhetorically aligned. Conquest, settler beliefs held, demanded brute force and rugged individualism. Rachel Herbert’s Ranching Women in Southern Alberta refutes these still-popular myths and writes women back into Alberta’s ranching history “in the earliest frontier period and [through] their continually […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Beef, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Carol Williams, Census Data, Rachel Herbert, Ranching, Scholarship, University of Calgary Press, University of Lethbridge
Should Food Come from Near or Far?
A dialogue between Pierre Desrochers and Kris Vester
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Biodiversity, Carbon Tax, Community Support, Debate, Farmers Markets, Farming, Fertilizer, Food Safety, Food Security, Local Food, Methane, Migration, Monoculture, Obesity, Pros and Cons, Public Subsidies, Tourism, World Health Organization
Oneil Carlier
Agriculture Minister
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bison, Evan Osenton, Minister of Agriculture, Oneil Carlier, Supreme Court
Deep in the Furrows
A four-generation Noble venture
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Blackfoot Confederacy, Canola, Charles Noble, Claresholm, Farming, Grasshoppers, Herbicide, Sid Marty, Steven Ross Smith
Beyond Bill 6
Can farmers and government find common ground?
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Facebook, Oneil Carlier, Press Gallery, Public Safety, Ranching, Red Deer County, Social Media, Town Hall, Wildrose Party, Workers’ Compensation Board, Workplace Safety
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