Dead Parrot

Alberta’s nostalgia party.

• Politics
• Wit

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Atlantic, Fracking, Fred Stenson, Ice Age, Jason Kenney, Jean Chretien, Peter Lougheed, Pierre Trudeau, Tailings Ponds, United Conservative Party

September 28, 2017

Cranes On High

Our better angels.

• Columns
• Environment

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canadian Armed Forces, Migration, Population, Wood Buffalo

Searching for Petronius Totem

Peter Unwin’s new novel, Searching for Petronius Totem, is a grand and bewildering off-road trip into Canadian weirdness. A dystopian kitchen sink domestic drama by way of private-eye-era noir, the book introduces hero and author Jack Vesoovian holding court in a ratty motel with a portly prostitute and Ayn Rand-loving former hockey player. Twisty digressions […]

• Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bryn Evans, Canadian Rockies, Literary Theory, Rocky Mountains

One Day We’ll All Be Dead

And None of This Will Matter

• Book Reviews

Tags: Afghanistan, Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Childbirth, Doubleday Canada, Essays, India, Iraq, Racism, Surgery, Undergraduate

Tar Wars

Oil, Environment and Alberta’s Image

• Book Reviews

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Alison Redford, Bitumen, Canola, Geo Takach, Northern Lights, Oil and Gas, Olympics, Rocky Mountains, University of Alberta, University of Alberta Press

Tsuut’ina Nation

Striving to balance big development and land stewardship.

• Community Profile
• Indigenous Topics

Tags: Casinos, Tsuut'ina Nation

September 5, 2017

Alberta Craft Council Calgary

The Alberta Craft Council has at last realized its goal of creating a physical presence in the southern half of the province. The council, which was founded in 1979 and operates Edmonton’s second-largest public gallery, has opened a new space in Calgary’s cSPACE King Edward, a historic sandstone school that has been redeveloped as an […]

• Arts
• In Focus

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Craft Council, Alberta Views, AUArts, Bow Valley, Calgary, Cuba, Edmonton, Maureen McNamee

Baba’s Other Children

The Ukrainian-Albertan “whitewash” overlooks a richer and more varied history

• Feature
• History

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canola, Coleman, Communism, Deron Bilous, Fascism, Glenbow, Natural History, Racism, Socialism, Spanish Civil War, Tourism, Vegreville, Vermilion

September 1, 2017

Head Bangers

How big a problem are brain injuries in high school football?

• Culture
• Education
• Feature

Tags: ADHD, Alberta, Alberta Views, Canada, Canadian Institute for Health Information, Canadian Medical Association, Coyotes, Marcello Di Cintio, Public Schools