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Kill (Your) Bill
Generate electricity at home. Pay less for power. Reduce your carbon footprint. Welcome to the dawn of Alberta’s microgeneration era.
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
July 1, 2009
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Mr. Tree (Part Two)
One question gnaws at me as my Opapa recalls his happy childhood in Germany: How much did you know? The second in a special three-part feature.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Catholic Church, Dementia, Holocaust, Jeremy Klaszus, Lutheran, Nazis
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