Unravelling Allendale

The plan was simple: learn the past lives of a house. But it led to an unexpected mystery.

• Feature
• History

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Canada, Canada Post, Canadian Pacific Railway, Dwayne Donald, Edmonton, Etsy, Fringe festival, Gardening, gentrification, Historical Preservation, Junior High, Labour Force Survey, New Brunswick, Railroad, Transit

July 1, 2007

High and Dry

Our water’s running low. Alberta’s government has a plan, but the oil sands just might suck us dry.

• Energy
• Feature
• Water

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Athabasca, Athabasca River, Bitumen, Canadian Rockies, Global Warming, Mediation, Methane, Oil and Gas, Reservoir, Rivers, Rocky Mountains, Wetlands

Hot Air

It’s time for government to get real about greenhouse gas emissions.

• Environment
• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Capital investment, Carbon, Geothermal Energy, Global Warming, Landfills, Solar Energy

Barriers to Women

Why are we so far from gender parity in our legislature?

• Feature
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Politics, Alberta Views, Brian Mason, Electoral Reform, First Past the Post, Gender Equality, Linda Sloan, New Brunswick, Public Opinion, Raj Pannu, Rural Ridings, Teacher Strike, The Famous Five, Views, Women in Politics

June 1, 2007

The Last Resort

Every night, thousands of Albertans turn to homeless shelters. Tavis Dodds joined them. This is what he discovered.

• Feature
• Homelessness
• Poverty
• Social Issues

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Calgary Stampede, Charity, Chinook, Drop-in Centre, Floor Crossing, Homeless Shelters, Oil Sands, Paramedics, Salvation Army, Sunalta

Mean Streets

Alberta has Canada’s largest per capita population of working homeless. Why do we expect people to live like this?

• Feature
• Homelessness
• Poverty
• Social Issues

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Budget Cuts, Calgary Stampede, Co-Housing, Drop-in Centre, Emergency Medical Services, Food Banks, Homeless Shelters, Ice Age, Joe Ceci, Population, Psychiatric Hospital, Susan McGee, Tax Incentives, Treatment Facility, Vacancy, Zoning

Rebel Daughter

She became a feminist icon and crusader—but what really mattered was her “aunt in Taber.”

• Feature
• Media

Tags: Abortion, Airdrie, Alberta, Alberta Views, Autobiography, Biography, Canmore, Discrimination, Doris Anderson, Floor Crossing, Irene Murdoch, Peter Gzowski, Pregnancy, Supreme Court

Finding His Way

Ralph Klein was a master of media relations. It’s a hard act to follow.

• Feature
• Leadership
• Politics

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Brian Mason, Chief of Staff, Civil Service, Deputy Premier, Don Getty, Ed Stelmach, Executive Council, Independent Media, Intergovernmental Affairs, Jim Dinning, Lobbyist, Peter Lougheed, Progressive Conservative Party, Propaganda, Ralph Klein, Rod Love, Socialism, Vegreville

Blowing in the Wind

There’s no shortage of wind in southern Alberta. So why has our government capped wind power production?

• Energy
• Feature
• Renewables

Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Crowsnest Pass, Deregulation, Electricity Deregulation, Enbridge, Enmax, George W. Bush, Monopoly, Pincher Creek, Spain, Suncor, Tax Credit, Transalta, Wind Energy

May 1, 2007