Painting the Province Green

We’re slowly coming around to sustainability. What would it take for Albertans to change how they vote?

• Environment
• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Bitumen, Communism, Crown Corporation, Electoral Reform, Geothermal Energy, Glaciers, Global Warming, Green Party, Inheritance, Leduc, Oil and Gas, Oil Sands, Ponoka, Preston Manning, Quality of Life, Social Credit party, Sour Gas, Voter Turnout

July 1, 2008

How I Chose Calgary

The sheer optimism got me.

• Culture
• Feature

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Calgary, Chinook, Edmonton, Halifax, Migration, New Brunswick, Will Ferguson

June 1, 2008

Buried Treasure

Why does a spectacular art collection languish in a University of Lethbridge storeroom?

• Feature
• Visual Art

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Arts Funding, Glenbow, Iran, Lethbridge, Minister of Advanced Education, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Museums, Nova Scotia, Spain, Undergraduate, University of Lethbridge

Child in View

The wide angle lens of “Child Honouring,” a new ecological paradigm for long-term decision making.

• Culture
• Environment
• Feature

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Boreal Forest, Forests, Killam, Oil Sands, Preston Manning, Sustainability, United Church

Our Other Fringe Festival

Alberta’s progressive movement and the pursuit of relevance.

• Culture
• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Africa, Alberta, Alberta Views, Apartheid, Bisexual, Chamber of Commerce, Fringe festival, Greenpeace, LGBTQ, Lobbyist, Naomi Klein, Newport, Parkland Institute, Preston Manning, Ricardo Acuna, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Urban Ridings

Sculpting a Legacy

Jean LaPointe Mihalcheon has been a quiet force on Alberta’s ceramics scene for decades.

• Feature
• Profile
• Visual Art

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, AUArts, Aurora, Governor General's Award, Katie Ohe, Marion Nicoll, Pottery, South Saskatchewan River, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

May 1, 2008

A Little Jazz on the Prairie

The Heart of Africa in Alberta’s Decidedly Jazz Danceworks.

• Feature
• Performing arts

Tags: Africa, Alberta, Alberta Views, Ballet, Dance, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, Flamingos, South Africa, Student Visa, West Africa

Urban vs Rural

Our cities dismiss the rural, but now a farmer is premier. Ed Stelmach and Alberta’s oldest conflict.

• Agriculture
• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Biography, Bob Edwards, Dave Cournoyer, Ed Stelmach, Fred Stenson, Grant MacEwan, Homosexuality, Intergovernmental Affairs, Jim Dinning, John Ware, LGBTQ, Minister of Municipal Affairs, Municipal Affairs, Peter Lougheed, Population, Progressive Conservative Party, Reservoir, Rod Love, Rubicon, Vegreville, Vermilion

The Year Alberta Stayed Home

This was to be the year Alberta embraced democracy. A look back on the little campaign that couldn’t.

• Elections
• Feature
• Leadership
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, Alberta Views, Auto Insurance, Brian Mason, Cardston, David Eggen, David Swann, Geriatric Healthcare, Green Party, Janet Brown, Jim Dinning, Karen Leibovici, Ken Nicol, Kevin Taft, Palliative Care, Paul Hinman, Peter Lougheed, Polling Stations, Preston Manning, Social Credit party, Strathmore, Teacher Strike, Voter Apathy, Voter Turnout, Voting