On Sleeping Buffalo

What brings you to Banff is the spirit of a particular mountain. And then you leave.

• Culture
• Feature
• Indigenous Topics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Banff, Banff National Park, Banff Springs Hotel, Bison, Bow Valley, Canada, Canadian Pacific Railway, Canmore, Golf Courses, Great Depression, Indigenous, Kootenay, Morley Reserve, Mountain Park, Railroad, Sleeping Buffalo, The Banff Centre, Transit, Tunnel Mountain

December 1, 2010

The Imaginary Divide

Peaceful coexistence between Muslim and non-Muslim Albertans in long-standing.

• Culture
• Feature
• Immigrants
• Religion

Tags: Afghanistan, Alberta, Alberta Views, Arabic, Discrimination, Gaza, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Lutheran, Muslim, Propaganda, Saudi Arabia, South Asia, Supreme Court, Syria, Taliban

A Dose of Song

An alternative therapy offers hope for the growing number of Albertan’s with Parkinsons disease.

• Feature
• Healthcare
• Performing arts

Tags: Alberta Views, Choir, Family Doctors, Geriatric Healthcare, Healthcare Workers, Music, Old Strathcona, Palliative Care, Quality of Life, Virtual Medicine

November 1, 2010

No Place to Age

The costs and indignities of long-term care in Alberta.

• Feature
• Healthcare
• Senior's Health

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Assisted Living, Camrose, David Eggen, Dementia, Donna Wilson, Geriatric Healthcare, Long-Term Care, Nursing, Palliative Care, Quality of Life, Registered Nurse, Support Worker, United Nurses of Alberta

Fatherhood

Suddenly, there is a baby in the room. And he is mine. Suddenly, there is a father in the room. And he is me.

• Feature
• Healthcare
• Literary

Tags: Africa, Alberta, Alberta Views, Arabic, Canals, Canola, Cemetery, Fatherhood, Ghana, Marcello Di Cintio, North Africa, Peru, Sahara, West Africa

The Reservist

It was as if my dad was visiting from another planet—Planet Military.

• Feature
• History
• Literary

Tags: Afghanistan, Alberta, Alberta Views, Barb Howard, Canadian Armed Forces, Junior High, Military, Queen Elizabeth II, Skiing, Veterans

The Answer Specialists

Daddy: Can the devil really make you do something?

• Original Fiction

Tags: Women's Shelter

October 1, 2010

An Audit Too Far

The Stelmach government pledged accountability until Fred Dunn discovered their billion-dollar giveaway.

• Energy
• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Audit, Auditor General, Camrose, Ed Stelmach, Electoral Officer, Geriatric Healthcare, Hansard, Lorne Gibson, Mel Knight, Palliative Care, Sheila Pratt

Petrostate

When an overdeveloped sense of prosperity causes an underdeveloped sense of democracy.

• Energy
• Feature
• Oil

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Andrew Nikiforuk, Athabasca, Athabasca River, Audit, Auditor General, Aurora, Authoritarianism, Bears, Bitumen, Corporate Income Tax, Deputy Premier, Energy Resources Conservation Board, Foreign Policy, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Speech, Greenpeace, Grizzly Bears, Iran, Nigeria, Oil and Gas, Oil Sands, Petrostate, Rivers, Social Media, Socialism, Stanley Cup, Sudan, Suncor, Syncrude, Tailings Ponds, Think Tank, Venezuela