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Democracy in Alberta
How the popular movements that shaped our province were perverted into populism.

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Dictatorship, Populism, Socialism, Think Tank
January 1, 2008
Wranglers vs. Wagner
Does it make sense to support the arts? An economist’s view on cultural funding.

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Aluminum, Arts Funding, Chamber of Commerce, Fringe festival, Glenbow, Migration, Museums, Northern Lights, Olympics, Royal Alberta Museum, Wild Rose Country
December 1, 2007
Knowing the Score
Taking the pulse of Alberta’s symphony orchestras.

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Badlands, Ballet, Brazil, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Classical Music, Dave Hancock, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Music, Quality of Life, Teacher Strike
Theatre Goes South
A Calgary playwright makes the case for crowning Cowtown our drama capital.

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Theatre Projects, Alberta Views, Bob White, Cultural Centre, Eugene Stickland, Fringe festival, Rodeo, Theatre, Theatre Junction
Pruning Martin
Short Story Contest Winner 2007

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Biography, Casinos, Gardening
Down the River
The province says life is fine downstream from the oil sands. So why does nobody in Fort Chipewyan believe it?

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Athabasca, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Athabasca River, Canada, Dene Nation, Fort Chipewyan, Freedom of Information, Health Canada, Ireland, Jeremy Klaszus, Keyano College, Muskrat, Pollution, Population, Rivers, Rocky Mountains, Suncor, Tailings Ponds, Wetlands, Whistleblowers, Wood Buffalo
November 1, 2007
The Ponds
Oil sands extraction makes a lot of waste. Where does it all go? Welcome to Alberta’s tailings ponds.

Tags: Alaska, Alberta, Alberta Views, Andrew Nikiforuk, Athabasca, Athabasca River, Audit, Auditor General, Bitumen, Chamber of Commerce, Iran, Mediation, Oil and Gas, Oil Sands, Rivers, Suncor, Syncrude, Tailings Ponds, University of Lethbridge, University of Windsor, Wetlands
Western Taxidermy
What happens when a taxidermist shows up at the baby shower? And why was she invited?

Tags: Africa, Alberta, Alberta Views, Barb Howard, Pheasant, South Africa
The Hidden Face of Prosperity
In northern Alberta, a sharp rise in prostitution is a devastating downside of the boom.

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Police, Alberta Views, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Children's services, Finland, Ice Age, Population, Residential Schools, Resignation, Sex Work
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