The Big Squeeze

Can wildlife and hyperdevelopment coexist in the Bow Valley?

• Feature
• Wildlife

Tags: Affordable Housing, Alberta, Alberta Views, Banff, Banff National Park, Bears, Bow Valley, Bull Trout, Canmore, Coal Mining, Cougar Creek, Fishing, Grizzly Bears, Idaho, Karsten Heuer, Local Business, Olympics, Parks and Recreation, Reservoir, Town Hall, Trans-Canada-Highway, Transit, Wildlife Corridor, Yukon, Zoning

July 1, 2009

Kill (Your) Bill

Generate electricity at home. Pay less for power. Reduce your carbon footprint. Welcome to the dawn of Alberta’s microgeneration era.

• Energy
• Environment
• Feature

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Barack Obama, Boreal Forest, California, Carbon Tax, Electric Car, Enmax, Forests, Net-Zero, Oil Sands, Reservoir, Solar Energy, Spain, Think Tank, Transalta, USA, Wind Energy

Mr. Tree (Part Three)

One question gnaws at me as my Opapa recalls his happy childhood in Germany: How much did you know? The final instalment of a three-part feature.

• Culture
• Environment
• Essay
• Feature

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Authoritarianism, Douglas Fir Trail, Jeremy Klaszus, Lutheran, St. Albert

June 1, 2009

Citizen Bloggers

Online social media and networks provide new ways for Albertans to get political. Welcome to Citizenship 2.0.

• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Barack Obama, Battle River, Biography, Blogging, Brian Mason, Budget Cuts, Chief of Staff, Dave Cournoyer, Dave Hancock, Dave Taylor, David Swan, Empress, Facebook, Kent Hehr, Progressive Conservative Party, Social Media

Double Life

Roy Farran was a local hero—and a man with a hidden past.

• Culture
• Feature
• Government
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Israel, Mavericks, New Brunswick, Palestine, Peter Lougheed, Resignation, Roy Farran, Syria

The Tomes, They Are A-Changing

How Alberta’s publishers are meeting the digital age.

• Feature
• Literary
• Technology

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Alberta Views, Athabasca, Athabasca University, Athabasca University Press, Biography, Canmore, Commonwealth, Crowsnest Pass, Facebook, Frontenac House, Gardening, Giller Prize, Globalization, Marina Endicott, Mavericks, Mel Hurtig, New Brunswick, Social Media, Tax Credit, Writers Guild of Alberta

Mythologized & Misunderstood

The real Alberta is infinitely more complex, nuanced and absurd than outsiders—or even Albertans—fathom.

• Culture
• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Africa, Alberta, Alberta Views, Anne Wheeler, Atheist, Ballet, Bible Belt, Biodiversity, Bitumen, Calgary Stampede, Chuckwagons, Corb Lund, David Swan, Diabetes, Fixed Income, Geo Takach, Holocaust, Lebanon, Mavericks, Monoculture, Myths, Oil and Gas, Preston Manning, Royal Alberta Museum, Rudy Wiebe, Sour Gas, South Africa, Spain, Vulcan, Wild Rose Country, Yemen

May 1, 2009

Why I Left Politics

Ostracized. Ignored. Irrelevant. Welcome to life as an opposition MLA.

• Democracy
• Feature
• Parties
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Civil Service, David Eggen, David Swann, Maurice Tougas, Raj Pannu

Martha and Henry Retire

The end of Ralph Klein’s “severely normal” master narrative.

• Culture
• Feature
• Government
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Association of Municipal Districts, Alberta Views, Athabasca, Athabasca University, Barack Obama, Budget Cuts, Chamber of Commerce, Civil Service, Class Size, Fixed Income, Food Banks, mandate letter, Martha and Henry, Peter Lougheed, Ponoka, Popular Vote, Populism, Ralph Klein, Rod Love, Rodeo, Sheila Pratt, Special Interest Groups, Teacher Strike, University of Lethbridge