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Cheryl Foggo’s John Ware
At the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site south of Longview they tell a story about John Ware. The Black cowboy and rancher, a former slave in the US, was hired in 1882 to help bring 3,000 cattle across the border to the Bar U, where he would help manage the roaming herds. Shortly after […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Cheryl Foggo, Glenbow, John Ware, Longview, Maureen McNamee, Ranching, Rodeo, Writers Guild of Alberta
December 1, 2017
Fixing Foster Care
Solutions through an Aboriginal lens
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Audit, Auditor General, Child and Youth Advocate, Children's services, David Swan, Del Graf, Foster Care, Indigenous Leaders, Indigenous people, Lubicon, Peace Country, Residential Schools, Siksika
When Things Fall Apart
How quickly family caregiving can go south
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Autonomy, Caregivers, Clem Martini, Dementia, Family Doctors, Ireland, Mediation, Paramedics, Rockyview, Schizophrenia
Health Advocacy Inc.
How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Cancer, Globalization, Pharmaceuticals
November 1, 2017
Rising Abruptly
Gisèle Villeneuve’s works straddle languages, informed by her native Montreal and by Alberta, where she has lived for nearly 40 years. Her last novel, Visiting Elizabeth, was a hybrid English–French work that seesawed from one language to the other, often in the same sentence. The stories in her new collection, Rising Abruptly (winner of the […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Menopause, Nepal, University of Alberta, University of Alberta Press
Better Now
Six Big Ideas To Improve Health Care For All Canadians
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Allen Lane, Diabetes, Guaranteed Annual Income, Hospital Wait Times, Hospitals, Primary Care, Public Healthcare, Walk-In Clinic
Ritual Political Suicide
The allure of the ironic.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Fred Stenson, Suicide
Hunting Season
Ethical musings afield.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bison, Consumerism, Pheasant, Wildlife Management
Theatre Canmore
A new theatre company launched in Canmore this September with a lineup of shows created and performed by local artists. Theatre Canmore’s artistic director, Melanie DesRoches, says a lot of people in the region have gone to school for acting, stage management, sound and lights or set design, but most of them work at a […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Blogging, Bow Valley, Canmore, Maureen McNamee, Parks Canada, Social Media, Theatre
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