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Twenty Years?
You must be joking.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Banff, Bears, Fred Stenson, Grizzly Bears, Homosexuality, LGBTQ, The Banff Centre
January 1, 2018
The Takeover
Jason Kenney unites the right
Tags: Abortion, Alberta, Alberta Views, BMO Centre, Calgary Stampede, Carbon Tax, Cardston, City Council, Cypress, Deregulation, Donna Kennedy-Glans, Elections Alberta, Facebook, Floor Crossing, Global Warming, Golf Courses, Home School, Jason Kenney, Jeff Callaway, Jeromy Farkas, Joe Clark, Leadership Race, Majority Government, National Post, Peter Lougheed, Population, Preston Manning, Private Schools, Privatization, Progressive Conservative Party, Public Schools, Reproductive Rights, Rick Bell, Rocky Mountain House, Social Media, Socialism, Special Interest Groups, Strathmore, Sundre
Retrospective: Party, Started
The creation of the Alberta Party
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Party, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Alison Redford, Brian Mason, Cronyism, Curtis Gillespie, Kent Hehr, Progressive Conservative Party
Retrospective: Fatherhood
I attended classes and read books. I learned the mechanics of back labour and the action of intravenous pitocin. Experts taught me all about breech birth, water birth and afterbirth. Nobody, though, told me how I was supposed to feel when I first saw my child. The classes and manuals offered no instruction. I assumed my first emotion would […]
Tags: Africa, Alberta, Alberta Views, Fatherhood, Marcello Di Cintio, North Africa
Retrospective: The Ponds
Every Albertan now knows that the tar sands, the world’s largest energy project, drinks an enormous amount of water. Separating tar from sand is a messy, water-intensive business: producing just one barrel of oil requires an average of three barrels of fresh water. Industry now withdraws enough from the Athabasca River every year to sustain […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Andrew Nikiforuk, Bitumen, Boreal Forest, Forests, Oil and Gas, Oil Sands, Tailings Ponds, UNESCO, Wetlands
Retrospective: Who You Callin’ Cultured?
A couple of municipal elections ago, a would-be alderman knocked on my door suggesting I might wish to vote for him, and asked if I had any concerns about the city of Calgary. I asked him what he planned to do for culture. He looked at me wonderingly, and said, with genuine puzzlement, “What’s that?” […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Arts Funding, Municipal Elections, Tourism
Retrospective: A Trip Around the Bus Loop
In Grade 6, Lois told me her mother lay on the couch all day, eating chocolates and crying. Astonishing. But not entirely. I believe I knew, deep down, that the place was filled with unhappy mothers. There were shadows. My Grade 5 teacher had a nervous breakdown. A professor who lived near us got divorced. […]
Tags: Ballet, Windsor Park
Retrospective: The Next Alberta
Critics of the culture of cyberspace note the link between ongoing privatization of public space and the Internet junkie’s loss of contact, while blithely cruising the cosmos, with the neighbourhood right under his/her nose. How do the webheads construct community in the rubble of disintegrating public works? Think of the attack on the idea of […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Casinos, Free Trade, Public Library, Public Schools, Scholarship, Social Media
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