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The Disappearing Critic
What will replace newspapers as the source of quality arts criticism?
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Art History, Blogging, Bob Clark, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, Classical Music, Conflict of Interest, Don Getty, Facebook, Glenbow, Governor General's Award, High Performance Rodeo, Maureen McNamee, Music, Nancy Tousley, Rodeo, Social Media
July 1, 2017
AGA and Glenbow
The Art Gallery of Alberta is trying something new: free admission for youth, students and weeknight visitors. The first two in a series of three changes at the AGA eliminated the entrance fee for visitors under age 18 and for Alberta post-secondary students, and offered free admission from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Art Gallery of Alberta, City Council, Glenbow, Maureen McNamee, Museums
The Coal Phase-Out
Why it’s right and Jason Kenney is wrong
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, ATCO, Carbon Tax, Chamber of Commerce, Coal Mining, Enbridge, Energy Transition, Enmax, Enron, Facebook, India, Jason Kenney, Social Media, Solar Energy, Suncor, Town Hall, Transalta, Wind Energy
Facts Don’t Matter
Harper is gone, but pro-development governments continue to ignore science
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Energy Regulator, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Aluminum, Athabasca, Athabasca River, Barack Obama, Chief Scientist, Chinook, Civil Service, Energy Resources Conservation Board, Environmental impact statement, Fishing, Methane, Migration, Muskrat, Order of Canada, Red Tape, Reservoir, Rivers, Sockeye Salmon
The Mystery of Ursus arctos
Searching for grizzlies in Alberta’s boreal
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Andrea Morehouse, Bear Management, Bears, Caribou, Chinchaga River, Coal Mining, CPAW, Facebook, Grizzly Bears, Peace Country, Rivers, Seismic Lines, Social Media, Wildlife Act
Encountering Riel
Certain historical events—particularly those where someone sins and someone is sinned against—draw novelists as magnets draw iron filings. In Canada, the misnamed Riel Rebellion of 1885, the final phase of Canada’s war against a united Métis people, is such an event. It has already produced one towering work of literature, Rudy Wiebe’s The Scorched Wood […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Rudy Wiebe, Stonehouse Publishing
June 30, 2017
Farm Workers
Injustices and Activism
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Authors, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Essays, Socialism, University of Alberta, University of Alberta Press
On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood
If you think about life enough, or too much, it looks like a series of losses. Poems can work as a reckoning of these losses or, in the case of Calgary poet Richard Harrison’s sixth and latest book, a sort of temporary dike—sandbags of words keeping out the floodwaters for just a little while. On […]
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Books, Alberta Views, Alex Rettie, Wolsak and Wynn
Reinventing Prosperity
Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality and Climate Change
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Carbon Levy, Free Trade, Think Tank
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