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High and Dry
Our water’s running low. Alberta’s government has a plan, but the oil sands just might suck us dry.
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Athabasca, Athabasca River, Bitumen, Canadian Rockies, Global Warming, Mediation, Methane, Oil and Gas, Reservoir, Rivers, Rocky Mountains, Wetlands
July 1, 2007
Hot Air
It’s time for government to get real about greenhouse gas emissions.
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?
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.
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?
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.”
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.
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?
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
A Questionable Bargain
The Christian Labour Association of Canada claims it gives its members more dignity than a traditional union would. But does its approach really work?
Tags: Alberta, Alberta Views, Brent Rathgeber, Collective Bargaining, Conflict of Interest, Court of Appeal, Court of Queen's Bench, Jeremy Klaszus, Jim Dinning, Netherlands, Oil Sands, Philippines, Protestant, Secular, Socialism, St. Albert, Temporary Foreign Workers, Unions
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